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Australian psychiatry: coming of age?

Part of: BJPsych International Country Profiles Collection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Alan Rosen
Alan Rosen*
Affiliation:
Royal North Shore Hospital and Community Mental Health Services, Sydney; Associate Professor, School of Public Health, University of Wollongong; Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, email: [email protected]
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Australia, a vast continent of 7 700 000 km2 (including the island state of Tasmania), is roughly the size of Western Europe or mainland USA, but with a population of only 20.2 million (2004 estimate), mainly concentrated in coastal areas.

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International Psychiatry , Volume 2 , Issue 10 , October 2005 , pp. 15 - 17
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