Care-seeking as a proxy indicator of the mental health of elderly Brazilians

Objective: To assess a large set of metadata made public by the Brazilian Ministry of Health on older subjects who visited outpatient mental health services in Brazil from 2008 to 2012. Methods: We extracted data from the Brazilian Unified Health System Information Technology Department (Departamen...

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Main Authors: Luis F. Castro-de-Araujo, Daiane B. Machado, Maurício L. Barreto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Brasileira de Psiquiatria (ABP)
Series:Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-44462020005015204&lng=en&tlng=en