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Article: Mental health policy and service guidance package
- Article from:
- Indian Journal of Medical Research
- Article date:
- December 1, 2004
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Mental health policy and service guidance package. Providing tool to improve the mental health of population (8 modules) (World Health Organization, Geneva) 2003. Price: Sw. fr. 120.00 / US $ 108.00
There has been an escalation in the number of people with mental disorders worldwide posing a major challenge to global development. The burden is higher in developing countries which have poor resources to respond to such demands. At a given time, worldwide figures point to 450 million people being affected with mental and brain disorders. No particular group of population is immune to mental illness, the risk however being higher among children and adolescents, abused women, unemployed persons ...
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