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Epidemiology and depression1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

M. R. Eastwood  and
P. M. Kramer
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Psychological Medicine , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , May 1981 , pp. 229 - 234
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1981

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