Product Description: The purpose of the World Psychiatric Association is to coordinate the activities of its Member Societies on a world-wide scale and to advance enquiry into the etiology, pathology, and treatment of mental illness. To further this purpose, the Association organizes mono- or multi thematic Regional Symposia in different parts of the world twice a year, and World Congresses dealing with all individual fields of psychiatry once every five or six years...read more

Product Description: In recent years, primary health care has been gaining in significance as a setting for both research on mental illness in the general population and for the development of new preventive approaches in this field. The growing need for research has received impetus from the escalating costs of hospital-based health care, the re-structuring of health services in a number of countries, with an increased emphasis on community care and prevention, and the World Health Organizations "Health for All" campaign, in response to which a growing number of national planning documents have been published...read more

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