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Attitudes to depression among community health workers in Kenya

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 April 2011

David Kiima ,
Frank Njenga ,
Ajit Shah ,
Max Okonji ,
James Ayuyo ,
Makheti Baraza ,
Elizabeth Parker  and
Rachel Jenkins
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Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences , Volume 18 , Issue 4 , December 2009 , pp. 352 - 356
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