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Psychiatric Outpatients in a General Hospital of Ethiopia: Diagnostic and Sociodemographic Characteristics

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  • Sudhir K. Khandelwal

    (Dept. of Psychiatry, Medical Faculty, Addis Ababa University)

  • Fikre Workneh

    (Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)

Abstract

Delivery of mental health care in developing countries has been woefully inadequate. General hospital psychiatric units can play a significant role in providing care to the mentally ill as well as in the training of health professionals. The problems of mental illness are practically the same everywhere as has been highlighted in this paper, which discusses the functioning and diagnostic and demographic data of such a unit in Ethiopia. The paper also compares diagnostic data from Ethiopia with that of an Indian and a British study.

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  • Sudhir K. Khandelwal & Fikre Workneh, 1988. "Psychiatric Outpatients in a General Hospital of Ethiopia: Diagnostic and Sociodemographic Characteristics," International Journal of Social Psychiatry, , vol. 34(3), pages 230-235, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:socpsy:v:34:y:1988:i:3:p:230-235
    DOI: 10.1177/002076408803400309
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    1. R. Giel & J.N. Van Liujk, 1970. "Psychiatric Morbidity in a Rural Village in South-Western Ethiopia," International Journal of Social Psychiatry, , vol. 16(1), pages 63-71, January.
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