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An assessment of mental health policy in Ghana, South Africa, Uganda and Zambia

BACKGROUND: Approximately half of the countries in the African Region had a mental health policy by 2005, but little is known about quality of mental health policies in Africa and globally. This paper reports the results of an assessment of the mental health policies of Ghana, South Africa, Uganda a...

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Autores principales:	Faydi, Edwige, Funk, Michelle, Kleintjes, Sharon, Ofori-Atta, Angela, Ssbunnya, Joshua, Mwanza, Jason, Kim, Caroline, Flisher, Alan
Formato:	Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2011
Materias:	Research
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3090369/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21477285 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1478-4505-9-17

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