Challenges of creating synergy between global mental health and cultural psychiatry

Transcultural Psychiatry

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 806-828

  de Jong, Joop T V M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

collaboration; cultural psychiatry; global mental health; LMIC; synergy

Indexed keywords

COOPERATION; CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HEALTH; HUMAN; MENTAL HEALTH; ARTICLE; GLOBAL MENTAL HEALTH; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PSYCHIATRY;

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ETHNOPSYCHOLOGY; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; MENTAL HEALTH;

EID: 84911478701     PISSN: 13634615     EISSN: 14617471     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1363461514557995     Document Type: Article

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