Supporting mental health in South African HIV-affected communities: Primary health care professionals' understandings and responses

Health Policy and Planning

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 917-927

  Burgess, Rochelle Ann ^a,b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

HIV; Practitioner understandings; Primary mental health care; South Africa; Women's mental health

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MENTAL HEALTH; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOLOGY; RURAL POPULATION; SOUTH AFRICA; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMANS; MENTAL HEALTH; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RURAL POPULATION; SOUTH AFRICA; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 84941895666     PISSN: 02681080     EISSN: 14602237     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czu092     Document Type: Article

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