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Special Issue: Epidemiological Transitions - Beyond Omran's Theory

Closing the mental health treatment gap in South Africa: a review of costs and cost-effectiveness

Helen JackDepartment of PsychiatryUniversity of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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Ryan G. WagnerMRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt)School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa;Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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Inge PetersenSchool of Applied Human SciencesUniversity of KwaZulu Natal, Durban, South Africa
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Rita ThomPRICELESS SA (Priority Cost Effective Lessons in System Strengthening South Africa), School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Charles R NewtonDepartment of PsychiatryUniversity of Oxford, Oxford, UK;MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt)School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Alan SteinDepartment of PsychiatryUniversity of Oxford, Oxford, UK;MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt)School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Kathleen KahnMRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt)School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa;Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden;INDEPTH NetworkAccra, Ghana
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Stephen TollmanMRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt)School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa;Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden;INDEPTH NetworkAccra, Ghana
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Karen J HofmanMRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt)School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa;PRICELESS SA (Priority Cost Effective Lessons in System Strengthening South Africa), School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South AfricaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Article: 23431 | Received 25 Nov 2013, Accepted 21 Dec 2013, Published online: 15 May 2014

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