Use of clinical and service indicators to decrease the treatment gap for mental disorders: A global perspective

Epidemiologia e Psichiatria Sociale

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 267-269

  Saxena, Shekhar ^a  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY DISORDER; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BUDGET; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; DYSTHYMIA; EDITORIAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH SURVEY; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PANIC; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 55349086895     PISSN: 1121189X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s1121189x00000075     Document Type: Editorial

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