Commissioning and delivering culturally diverse child and adolescent mental health services

Current Opinion in Psychiatry

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 243-247

  Dogra, Nisha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Culturally diverse populations; Service provision

Indexed keywords

CHILD PSYCHIATRY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; IMMIGRATION; MANAGEMENT; MENTAL HEALTH CENTER; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; POPULATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RACE DIFFERENCE; REVIEW;

EID: 3042728592     PISSN: 09517367     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.yco.0000133825.17510.b8     Document Type: Review

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