Immigration policy: Implications for mental health services

Advances in Psychiatric Treatment

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 124-132

  Bacon, Lucy ^a   Bourne, Rebekah ^a   Oakley, Clare ^a,b   Humphreys, Martin ^c  

^a South Birmingham Primary Care Trust   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL COLLEGE OF PSYCHIATRISTS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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TRANQUILIZER;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CRIME; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT; IMMIGRANT; IMMIGRATION; INDIGENT; LEGAL ASPECT; LEGAL COMPETENCE; MANIA; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL FEE; MENTAL HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MENTAL PATIENT; MIGRANT WORKER; PATIENT MONITORING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRISON; REFUGEE;

EID: 77949516358     PISSN: 13555146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/apt.bp.108.006601     Document Type: Article

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