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Volume 121, Issue 1 , Pages 18-24 , January 2007

Prevalence, pattern and determinants of mental disorders in rural Bangladesh

  • G.M. Monawar Hosain

      Affiliations

    • Gono University, Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh
    • University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston, Texas, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Division of Epidemiology and Disease Control, School of Public Health, University of Texas, Houston Health Science Center, 1200 Herman Pressler, Houston, TX 77030, USA. Tel.: +17137922370; fax: +17137928261.
    • ,
  • Nilesh Chatterjee

      Affiliations

    • University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston, Texas, USA
    • Kalyani Media Group, Mumbai, India
    • ,
  • Nighat Ara

      Affiliations

    • Central Drug Addiction Hospital, Tejgaon, Dhaka, Bangladesh
    • ,
  • Tariqul Islam

      Affiliations

    • Gonoshasthaya Kendra, Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Received 27 June 2005 ,Revised 5 May 2006 ,Accepted 28 June 2006.

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doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2006.06.018

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