"We Always Live in Fear": Antidepressant Prescriptions by Unlicensed Doctors in India

Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 197-216

  Ecks, Stefan ^a   Basu, Soumita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antidepressants; Global mental health; India; Informal providers; Psychopharmaceuticals; Treatment gap

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INDIA; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; LICENSING; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; PATIENT CARE; PRESCRIPTION; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; PUBLIC RELATIONS; RURAL HEALTH CARE; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DRUG PRESCRIPTIONS; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INDIA; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; LEGISLATION, MEDICAL; LICENSURE, MEDICAL; MARKETING OF HEALTH SERVICES; PATIENT CARE; PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 84901327051     PISSN: 0165005X     EISSN: 1573076X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11013-014-9368-9     Document Type: Article

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