Beyond the biomedical: Community resources for mental health care in rural Ethiopia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Selamu, Medhin ^a   Asher, Laura ^a,b   Hanlon, Charlotte ^a,c   Medhin, Girmay ^d   Hailemariam, Maji ^a   Patel, Vikram ^b   Thornicroft, Graham ^c   Fekadu, Abebaw ^a,c  

^a ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION RESEARCH; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; COMMUNITY INTEGRATION; COMMUNITY REINTEGRATION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ETHIOPIA; EXERCISE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHYSICAL ABUSE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; RESOURCE MAPPING; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; DEMOGRAPHY; MENTAL HEALTH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; ETHIOPIA; HUMANS; MENTAL HEALTH; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 84930674988     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0126666     Document Type: Article

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