Description of a rural Australian free call telephone mental health information and support service

Australasian Psychiatry

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 365-370

  Ledek, Veronica ^b   Deane, Frank P ^a   Lambert, Gordon ^a   McKeehan, Catherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b Illawarra Public Health Unit   (Australia)

Author keywords

Mental health information; Rural psychiatry; Service provision; Telephone mental health service

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH; DATA ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION CENTER; INTERVIEW; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL STAFF; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RURAL AREA; RURAL HEALTH CARE; TEAMWORK; TELEPHONE;

EID: 0036910749     PISSN: 10398562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1665.2002.00496.x     Document Type: Article

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