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Volume 333:1227-1228 November 2, 1995 Number 18
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World Mental Health: Problems and priorities in low-income countries

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By Robert Desjarlais, Leon Eisenberg, Byron Good, and Arthur Kleinman, with contributions from 11 others. 382 pp. New York, Oxford University Press, 1995. $39.95. ISBN 0-19-509540-5.

There have been worldwide declines in mortality and fertility and increases in life expectancy and the control of infectious diseases, accompanied by economic changes and social upheavals. These major demographic changes, as well as ethnic conflicts, the movement of refugees, and internal displacement, have increased the incidence of mental and behavioral problems in low-income countries.

This book is a call to action to improve the mental health of people throughout the world. Supported by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the MacArthur Foundation, the Milbank Memorial Fund, and the Rockefeller Foundation, it is the fruit of a two-year collaboration by . . . [Full Text of this Article]




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