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Psychiatry in Papua New Guinea

Part of: BJPsych International Country Profiles Collection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Florence Muga
Florence Muga*
Affiliation:
National Department of Health, Papua New Guinea, email florencemugawebster@yahoo.co.uk
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Papua New Guinea is an independent commonwealth in the South Pacific, lying just north of Australia and sharing its western border with Indonesia. The population of Papua New Guinea is 5.2 million, of whom 87% live in rural areas (2000 census) (National Statistics Office, 2003). The country has a very rich culture; for example, there are over 800 distinct language groups (although Papua New Guinea has less than 0.1% of the world's population, it is home to over 10% of the world's languages).

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International Psychiatry , Volume 3 , Issue 3 , July 2006 , pp. 14 - 16
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