Optimizing mental health services in low-income and middle-income countries

Current Opinion in Psychiatry

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 318-323

  Petersen, Inge ^a   Lund, Crick ^b   Stein, Dan J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

low income countries; mental health services; middle income countries

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH LITERACY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; LAW; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL HEALTH SPECIALIST; MIDDLE INCOME GROUP; PATIENT REFERRAL; POLICY; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; READING; REVIEW; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIAL WELFARE;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 79958732900     PISSN: 09517367     EISSN: 14736578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/YCO.0b013e3283477afb     Document Type: Review

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