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Treating depression where there are no mental health professionals

Many people with depression and other mental health problems can be treated successfully by community health workers, but so far no country has scaled up this approach. Vikram Patel talks to Fiona Fleck.

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Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: World Health Organization 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5328119/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28250529
http://dx.doi.org/10.2471/BLT.17.030317
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spelling pubmed-53281192017-03-02 Treating depression where there are no mental health professionals Bull World Health Organ News Many people with depression and other mental health problems can be treated successfully by community health workers, but so far no country has scaled up this approach. Vikram Patel talks to Fiona Fleck. World Health Organization 2017-03-01 2017-03-01 /pmc/articles/PMC5328119/ /pubmed/28250529 http://dx.doi.org/10.2471/BLT.17.030317 Text en (c) 2017 The authors; licensee World Health Organization. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution IGO License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/legalcode), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. In any reproduction of this article there should not be any suggestion that WHO or this article endorse any specific organization or products. The use of the WHO logo is not permitted. This notice should be preserved along with the article's original URL.
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title Treating depression where there are no mental health professionals
title_full Treating depression where there are no mental health professionals
title_fullStr Treating depression where there are no mental health professionals
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title_short Treating depression where there are no mental health professionals
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5328119/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28250529
http://dx.doi.org/10.2471/BLT.17.030317