If You Could Only Choose Five Psychotropic Medicines: Updating the Interagency Emergency Health Kit
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1 Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland, 2 WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Mental Health, Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Section of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology, University of Verona, Verona, Italy, 3 Médecins Sans Frontières-Holland (MSF-H, Doctors without Borders-Holland), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 4 International Medical Corps (IMC), Santa Monica, California, United States of America, 5 Medicos del Mundo España (MdM-E, Doctors of the World-Spain), Madrid, Spain, 6 Senior Public Health Officer, Public Health and HIV Section, United Nations High Commissioner of Refugees (UNHCR), Geneva, Switzerland, 7 HealthNet TPO, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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