Structural violence and schizophrenia : psychosocial, economic and cultural impacts on the onset of psychoses.

Schizophrenia is a common and serious mental disorder affecting approximately 1% of the population (WHO, 1973). That genetic and other developmental factors give rise to a predisposition or vulnerability to schizophrenia is well recognized. However, the role of the environment in conferring risk for...

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Main Author: Burns, Jonathan Kenneth.
Other Authors: Emsley, R.
Language:en_ZA
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10413/4889