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. 2010 May 19;303(19):1976-7.
doi: 10.1001/jama.2010.616.

Global mental health: a new global health field comes of age

Vikram Patel  1 , Martin Prince
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Global mental health: a new global health field comes of age

Vikram Patel et al. JAMA. .
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