PSYCHIATRIC OUT-PATIENT IN A GENERAL HOSPITAL OF ADDIS ABABA DIAGNOSTIC AND SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS

Delivery of mental care in developing countries has been awfully inadequate. General hospital psychiatric units can play a significant role in providing care to the mentally ill as well as in training aspects of the health professionals. The problems of mental illness are practically same all over a...

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Autores principales: Khandelwal, S.K., Workneh, Fikre
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1988
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Original Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3010044/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21927303
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description Delivery of mental care in developing countries has been awfully inadequate. General hospital psychiatric units can play a significant role in providing care to the mentally ill as well as in training aspects of the health professionals. The problems of mental illness are practically same all over as has been highlighted in the paper which discusses the functioning and diagnostic and demographic data of such a unit in Ethiopia. The paper also compares the diagnostic data with that of an Indian and a British study.
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spelling pubmed-30100442011-09-16 PSYCHIATRIC OUT-PATIENT IN A GENERAL HOSPITAL OF ADDIS ABABA DIAGNOSTIC AND SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS Khandelwal, S.K. Workneh, Fikre Indian J Psychiatry Original Article Delivery of mental care in developing countries has been awfully inadequate. General hospital psychiatric units can play a significant role in providing care to the mentally ill as well as in training aspects of the health professionals. The problems of mental illness are practically same all over as has been highlighted in the paper which discusses the functioning and diagnostic and demographic data of such a unit in Ethiopia. The paper also compares the diagnostic data with that of an Indian and a British study. Medknow Publications 1988 /pmc/articles/PMC3010044/ /pubmed/21927303 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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PSYCHIATRIC OUT-PATIENT IN A GENERAL HOSPITAL OF ADDIS ABABA DIAGNOSTIC AND SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS
title PSYCHIATRIC OUT-PATIENT IN A GENERAL HOSPITAL OF ADDIS ABABA DIAGNOSTIC AND SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS
title_full PSYCHIATRIC OUT-PATIENT IN A GENERAL HOSPITAL OF ADDIS ABABA DIAGNOSTIC AND SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS
title_fullStr PSYCHIATRIC OUT-PATIENT IN A GENERAL HOSPITAL OF ADDIS ABABA DIAGNOSTIC AND SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS
title_full_unstemmed PSYCHIATRIC OUT-PATIENT IN A GENERAL HOSPITAL OF ADDIS ABABA DIAGNOSTIC AND SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS
title_short PSYCHIATRIC OUT-PATIENT IN A GENERAL HOSPITAL OF ADDIS ABABA DIAGNOSTIC AND SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS
title_sort psychiatric out-patient in a general hospital of addis ababa diagnostic and sociodemographic characteristics
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3010044/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21927303
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