Depression: A major public health problem facing the Carribean

West Indian Medical Journal

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 353-354

  Abel, Wendel D ^a   Gibson, R ^a   Hickling, F W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CENTRAL AMERICA; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; EDITORIAL; EDUCATION PROGRAM; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; JAMAICA; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERSONALITY; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL ASPECT;

CARIBBEAN REGION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; HUMANS; PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 33645640560     PISSN: 00433144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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