A Global Programme for Child and Adolescent Mental Health: A Challenge in the New Millennium

The Mental Health of Children and Adolescents: An Area of Global Neglect

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-11

  Remschmidt, Helmut ^a   Nurcombe, Barry ^b   Belfer, Myron L ^c   Sartorius, Norman ^d   Okasha, Ahmed ^e  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^e AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Child and adolescent mental health global awareness; Child and adolescent psychiatry; Children and adolescent mental health; International organizational role and global initiatives; United Nations (UN) Convention Rights of the Child; WHO Child and Adolescent Mental Health Atlas; World Psychiatric Association (WPA); WPA Presidential Global Programme on Child Mental Health

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889370932     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470512555.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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