Psychiatric epidemiology: Reducing the global burden of mental illness

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 168, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 977-979

  Buka, Stephen L ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; DEPRESSION; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEUROIMAGING; PUBLIC HEALTH; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SUICIDE;

EID: 54949135825     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwn298     Document Type: Editorial

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