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Orchid or dandelion: network analysis of social and psychological factors

Mental illness leads to great suffering for affected individuals and is one of societies’ largest challenges.

Maria Lalouni Maria Lalouni

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Trauma, vulnerability and mental health problems in South Africa and Sweden

Globally, mental illness is more responsible for extreme distress than poverty or unemployment, and, to compound the problem, mental illness interacts with poverty and unemployment in socially and economically impactful ways that create reinforcing cycles.

Ulf Gerdtham Ulf Gerdtham

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Psychosocial evaluation of patients with beta thalassemia major in Oman

Homozygous Beta thalassaemia is a lifelong condition requiring regular blood transfusions from infancy.

Shahina Daar Shahina Daar

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Grand Challenges: Integrating Mental Health Care into the Non-Communicable Disease Agenda

Victoria K. Ngo, Adolfo Rubinstein, Vijay Ganju, Pamela Kanellis, Nasser Loza, Cristina Rabadan-Diehl, Abdallah S. Daar. 2013. Grand Challen...

Abdallah Daar Abdallah Daar

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Declaration on mental health in Africa: moving to implementation

Abdallah S. Daar, Marian Jacobs, Stig Wall, Johann Groenewald, Julian Eaton, Vikram Patel, Palmira dos Santos, Ashraf Kagee, Anik Gevers, Ch...

Abdallah Daar Abdallah Daar
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