Psychiatric Morbidity in the United Arab Emirates

摘要: The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is a recently born (1971) Arabian Gulf nation. Urban development has been massive in the last three decades. An increasingly heterogenous influx of expatriate workers and rapid expansion mass media communication led to strong interaction between Western values Islamic tradition an indigenous Bedouin population. Population composition such that, at best, native population constitutes 12%–20% total estimated 2 million inhabitants (Department Planning Research 1992). characteristic demographic structure social changes consequent upon economic wealth were expected have substantial effects on prevalence pattern psychiatric morbidity this country surrounding countries that undergone similar latter