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Mental health epidemiology today: a monitor of distress

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2012

B. Cooper*
Affiliation:
University of Heideberg–Medical Faculty, Mannheim, Bachstrasse 34, 69121 Heidelberg, Germany
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Abstract

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