Treating depression where there are no mental health professionals
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Many people with depression and other mental health problems can be treated successfully by community health workers, but so far no country has scaled up this approach. Vikram Patel talks to Fiona Fleck.
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دوره 95 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2017