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The Effect of Psychiatric Education on Attitudes to Illness Among the Ganda

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

J. H. Orley  and
J. P. Leff
J. H. Orley
Affiliation:
Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
J. P. Leff
Affiliation:
M.R.C. Social Psychiatry Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, London, S.E.5
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The Ganda are the most numerous tribe in Uganda. They live around the capital, Kampala, along the north-west shore of Lake Victoria and up to 50 to 100 miles inland. They are a Bantu-speaking people, surrounded by other Bantu to the east, west and south, with Nilotic people to the north.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 121 , Issue 561 , August 1972 , pp. 137 - 141
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1972 

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