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. 2016 Mar;61(3):154-8.
doi: 10.1177/0706743715616609.

Mental Health Literacy: Past, Present, and Future

Stan Kutcher  1 , Yifeng Wei  2 , Connie Coniglio  3
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Mental Health Literacy: Past, Present, and Future

Stan Kutcher et al. Can J Psychiatry. 2016 Mar.
No abstract available

Keywords: mental health; mental health literacy; mental illness.

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Conflict of interest statement

Declaration of Conflicting Interests: The author(s) declared the following potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and (or) publication of this article: Each of the authors has created various MHL materials and interventions and has contributed to the development of the evolution of the MHL construct.

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