Attitudes to psychosis: health professionals
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Editoriali/ Editorials Attitudes to psychosis: health professionals
Attitudes held by health professionals, especially those working in mental health, can profoundly influence the well-being of patients with psychosis. Thus, both health care provision and health outcomes are compromised, with resultant inequality. These attitudes are shaped by and vary according to prevailing cultural norms, in society at large, in health service organisations and within profes...
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عنوان ژورنال: Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences
سال: 2004
ISSN: 2045-7960,2045-7979
DOI: 10.1017/s1121189x00001718