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Use of clinical and service indicators to decrease the treatment gap for mental disorders: a global perspective

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 April 2011

Shekhar Saxena
Shekhar Saxena*
Affiliation:
Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, World Health Organization, Geneva (Switzerland)
*
Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse World Health Organization CH-1211, Geneva (Switzerland). E-mail: saxenas@who.int
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Editorial
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Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences , Volume 17 , Issue 4 , December 2008 , pp. 267 - 269
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