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WHO report aims to increase understanding of mental health

The agency made a series of recommendations to governments: provide treatment within community-based primary care and close remaining mental asylums; make psychotropic medicines more widely available; train more mental-health professionals and educate the public; link mental health policy with progr...

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Published in:The Lancet (British edition) 2001-10, Vol.358 (9289), p.1248-1248
Main Author: Kapp, Clare
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:The agency made a series of recommendations to governments: provide treatment within community-based primary care and close remaining mental asylums; make psychotropic medicines more widely available; train more mental-health professionals and educate the public; link mental health policy with programmes to tackle alcohol, drug, and tobacco abuse.
ISSN:0140-6736
1474-547X
DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(01)06390-5