Effects of level of socio-economic development on course of non- affective psychosis

British Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 171, Issue SEPT., 1997, Pages 256-259

  Varma, Vijoy K ^a   Brown, Alan S ^a   Wig, N N ^a   Tripathi, B M ^a   Misra, Arun K ^a   Khare, C B ^a   Phookun, Hemen R ^a   Menon, D K ^a   Susser, Ezra S ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HUMAN; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL DISEASE; PSYCHOSIS; RURAL POPULATION; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIOECONOMICS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0030750953     PISSN: 00071250     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.171.3.256     Document Type: Article

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