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Refugee mental health challenges in Africa

Nearly all low-income countries are either just themselves emerging from conflict or neighbour a country that has just emerged from one. According to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (http://www.unhcr.org), of the 38 million uprooted people in 2003 worldwide, Africa pl...

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Autor principal: Njenga, Frank G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6734751/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31507871
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spelling pubmed-67347512019-09-10 Refugee mental health challenges in Africa Njenga, Frank G. Int Psychiatry Thematic Paper–The Mental Health of Refugees Nearly all low-income countries are either just themselves emerging from conflict or neighbour a country that has just emerged from one. According to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (http://www.unhcr.org), of the 38 million uprooted people in 2003 worldwide, Africa played host to 13 million internally displaced persons and 3.5 million refugees. The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2007-01-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6734751/ /pubmed/31507871 Text en © 2007 The Royal College of Psychiatrists http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Non-Commercial, No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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