Rural mental health
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Rural mental health
A significant proportion of people live and work in rural areas, and rural mental health is important wherever psychiatry is practised. There are inherent difficulties in conducting rural research, due in part to the lack of an agreed definition of rurality. Mental health is probably better in rural areas, with the exception of suicide, which remains highest in male rural residents. A number of...
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عنوان ژورنال: Advances in Psychiatric Treatment
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1355-5146,1472-1481
DOI: 10.1192/apt.bp.107.005009