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Editorial
. 2022 Oct 14;10(10):2025.
doi: 10.3390/healthcare10102025.

Primary Mental Health Care in a New Era

Athanasios Tselebis  1 , Argyro Pachi  1
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Editorial

Primary Mental Health Care in a New Era

Athanasios Tselebis et al. Healthcare (Basel). .

Abstract

Clinical experience and scientific studies highlight the pivotal role that primary health care services have and should have as a gateway to the health care system and as a first point of contact for patients with mental disorders, particularly-but not exclusively-for patients with a disorder in the spectrum of common mental disorders [...].

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The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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