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Community and individual sense of trust and psychological distress among the urban poor in Accra, Ghana

BACKGROUND: Mental health disorders present significant health challenges in populations in sub Saharan Africa especially in deprived urban poor contexts. Some studies have suggested that in collectivistic societies such as most African societies people can draw on social capital to attenuate the ef...

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Autores principales:	Kushitor, Mawuli K., Peterson, Maame B., Asante, Paapa Yaw, Dodoo, Naa Dodua, Boatemaa, Sandra, Awuah, Raphael Baffour, Agyei, Francis, Sakyi, Lionel, Dodoo, F. Nii-Amoo, de-Graft Aikins, Ama
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Public Library of Science 2018
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6160026/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30261067 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0202818

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