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International Review of Psychiatry Volume 16, 2004 - Issue 1-2: International Project on Mental Health Policy and Services. Phase 1: Instruments and Country Profiles
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Original Article

The appropriateness and use of focus group methodology across international mental health communities

Klaas Schilder Consortium Center for Public Mental Health, Maastricht, The NetherlandsCorrespondence[email protected]
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Toma Tomov Department of Psychiatry, The Medical University of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria
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M. Mladenova Institute for Human Relations, New Bulgarian University, Sofia, Bulgaria
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John Mayeya Central Board of Health, Lusaka, Zambia
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Rachel Jenkins Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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Walter Gulbinat Global Network for Research in Mental and Neurological Health, Liechtenstein, Germany
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Ron Manderscheid Division of State and Community Systems Development Center for Mental Health Services, Rockville, USA
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Florence Baingana Human Development Network, The World Bank, Washington DC, USA
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Harvey Whiteford University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
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Sudhir Khandelval All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
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Alberto Minoletti Ministry of Health, Miraflores, Santiago, Chile
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Malik H. Mubbashar University of Health Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan
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R. Srinivasa Murthy Regional office for the Eastern Mediterranean, World Health Organization, Cairo, Egypt
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M. Parameshvara Deva Kuala Belait Hospital, Kuala Belait, Brunei
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Aliko Baba Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Public Health Network, Huntingdon, UK
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Clare Townsend University of Queensland, Toowong, Australia
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T. Sakuta , Chiba-ken, Japan
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Pages 24-30 | Published online: 11 Jul 2009

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