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The mental health of indigenous peoples : an international overview / Alex Cohen.

Title
The mental health of indigenous peoples : an international overview / Alex Cohen.
Author
Cohen, Alex
Publication
Geneva : Dept. of Mental Health, World Health Organization, c1999.

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Additional Authors
  • World Health Organization. Department of Mental Health
  • Nations for Mental Health.
Description
v, 39 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Indigenous peoples > Mental health
  • Mental Health Services
  • Health Services, Indigenous
Note
  • At head of title: Nations for Mental Health.
  • "WHO/MNH/NAM/99.1."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 32-39).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
  • 1. Introduction. -- 2. Towards a definition of indigenous. -- 3. Worlds of indigenous peoples. (depopulation, violence, dislocation, poverty, challenges to and repression of culture). -- 4. Context of mental health. (sociocultural environments and mental health, problems of diagnosis and treatment, culture-bound syndromes).
  • 5. Mental health of indigenous peoples. (Central and South America, North America, Australia, Pacific Islands, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Micronesia and Western Samoa, Hawaii, Asia, Russian Far North, Taiwan Republic of China). -- 6. Conclusions. -- Endnotes. -- References.
OCLC
42605940
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library