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Mental disorders in primary health care: the primary care physician's difficulties

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2011

Marco Piccinelli
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Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences , Volume 5 , Issue 3 , December 1996 , pp. 151 - 159
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