Social context and mental health, distress and illness: critical yet disregarded by psychiatric diagnosis and classification
Social change is ubiquitous and associated with mental distress and illness worldwide. To argue that social change has a differential impact in low and middle-income countries requires evidence, yet unavailable. Any effort at serious comparison to obtain such evidence is limited by current psychiatr...
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| Language: | English |
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Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
2016-01-01
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| Series: | Indian Journal of Social Psychiatry |
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| Online Access: | http://www.indjsp.org/article.asp?issn=0971-9962;year=2016;volume=32;issue=3;spage=243;epage=248;aulast=Jacob |