What action can national and international agencies take?

Mental Health in Family Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 97-99

  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

EDITORIAL; FUNDING; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; POLITICS;

EID: 80053043887     PISSN: 1756834X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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