Global mental health: Perspectives from Ethiopia

Global Health Action

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Fekadu, Abebaw ^a,b   Thornicroft, Graham ^b  

^a ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ethiopia; Global mental health; Health service; Treatment gap

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937693580     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/gha.v7.23447     Document Type: Article

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