Perceived need for mental health care and service use among adults in Western Europe: Results of the ESEMeD Project

Psychiatric Services

Volumn 60, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1051-1058

  Codony, Miquel ^a   Alonso, Jordi ^a   Almansa, Josué ^a   Bernert, Sebastian ^b   De Girolamo, Giovanni ^c   De Graaf, Ron ^d   Haro, Josep Maria ^e   Kovess, Viviane ^f   Vilagut, Gemma ^a   Kessler, Ronald C ^g  

^a INST MUNIC D INVESTIGACIO MEDICA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c IRCCS ISTITUTO CENTRO SAN GIOVANNI DI DIO FATEBENEFRATELLI   (Italy)

^d NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH AND ADDICTION   (Netherlands)

^e San Juan de Dios Sanitary Park   (Spain)

^f MGEN Foundation for Public Health   (France)

^g HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BELGIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONAL STABILITY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; FRANCE; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MOOD DISORDER; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NETHERLANDS; PREVALENCE; RESIDENTIAL AREA; RURAL POPULATION; SPAIN; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 69149088361     PISSN: 10752730     EISSN: 15579700     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/ps.2009.60.8.1051     Document Type: Article

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