Social and cultural determinants of mental health

Essential Psychiatry, Fourth Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 417-433

  Patel, Vikram ^a   Flisher, Alan J ^b,c   Cohen, Alex ^d  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511544125.019     Document Type: Chapter

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