Psychiatric outpatients in a general hospital of Ethiopia: diagnostic and sociodemographic characteristics
| Autor: | Fikre Workneh, Sudhir K Khandelwal |
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| Rok vydání: | 1988 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Cross-Cultural Comparison Male medicine.medical_specialty Developing country Psychiatric Department Hospital Hospitals General Unit (housing) 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Health care Medicine Diagnostic data Humans 030212 general & internal medicine General hospital Psychiatry Developing Countries Referral and Consultation Health professionals business.industry Mental Disorders Mental illness medicine.disease 030227 psychiatry Psychiatry and Mental health Socioeconomic Factors Mental health care Female Ethiopia business |
| Zdroj: | The International journal of social psychiatry. 34(3) |
| ISSN: | 0020-7640 |
| Popis: | Delivery of mental health care in developing countries has been woefully inadequate. General hospital psychiatric units can play a significant role in providing care to the mentally ill as well as in the training of health professionals. The problems of mental illness are practically the same everywhere as has been highlighted in this paper, which discusses the functioning and diagnostic and demographic data of such a unit in Ethiopia. The paper also compares diagnostic data from Ethiopia with that of an Indian and a British study. |
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