A United Nations General Assembly Special Session for Mental, Neurological, and Substance Use Disorders: The Time Has Come
Open Access
- 17 January 2012
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Medicine
- Vol. 9 (1), e1001159
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001159
Abstract
Vikram Patel and other global mental health leaders call for a special session of the UN General Assembly to discuss and debate action needed on mental, neurological, and substance use disorders, which have been left off the international NCDs agenda.Keywords
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