Shared mental health care and people of non-English-speaking backgrounds: A qualitative study of key informants' views

Primary Care Psychiatry

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 19-24

  Mihalopoulos, Cathrine ^a   Pirkis, Jane ^a   Dunt, David ^a   Naccarella, Lucio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

General practice; Mental health; Non English speaking background; Shared care

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COMMUNITY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNIC GROUP; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LANGUAGE; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEAMWORK;

EID: 0032958008     PISSN: 13552570     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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