Mental health and the global agenda: Core conceptual issues

Mental Health in Family Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 69-82

  Jenkins, Rachel ^a   Baingana, Florence ^b   Ahmad, Raheelah ^c   McDaid, David ^b   Atun, Rifat ^c  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANXIETY DISORDER; APPETITE DISORDER; BIPOLAR DISORDER; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DISABILITY; EPILEPSY; FATIGUE; GENDER; HEART PALPITATION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HIV ASSOCIATED DEMENTIA; HUMAN; IRRITABILITY; LIBIDO DISORDER; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MOOD DISORDER; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PARKINSON DISEASE; PHOBIA; PSYCHOSIS; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; PSYCHOSOCIAL DEVELOPMENT; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SLEEP DISORDER; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; SUICIDAL IDEATION;

EID: 80053025838     PISSN: 1756834X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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