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Culture and Schizophrenia

Criticisms of WHO studies are answered

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

A. Jablensky*
Affiliation:
University Department of Psychiatry, Royal Perth Hospital
N. Sartorius
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Geneva
J. E. Cooper
Affiliation:
25 Ireton Grove, Attenborough, Nottingham
M. Anker
Affiliation:
Epidemiological and Statistical Methodology Unit, World Health Organization, Geneva
A. Korten
Affiliation:
NH&MRC Social Psychiatry Research Unit, The Australian National University, Canberra
A. Bertelsen
Affiliation:
Aarhus Psychiatric Hospital, Denmark
*
A. Jablensky, University Department of Psychiatry, Royal Perth Hospital, 50 Murray Street, Perth, Western Australia 6000
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1994 

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