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Psychiatric research and primary care in Britain – past, present and future1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

Michael Shepherd
Michael Shepherd*
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, London
*
2Address for correspondence: Professor Michael Shepherd, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AF.
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Synopsis

A brief review of post-war developments indicates the course of research into psychiatric morbidity at the level of primary care in the United Kingdom. The theoretical and practical importance of such work has now been demonstrated and some major lines of future enquiry are outlined.

Type
Research Article
Information
Psychological Medicine , Volume 12 , Issue 3 , August 1982 , pp. 493 - 499
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1982

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Footnotes

1

This paper is a modified version of a contribution to a meeting organized by the Mental Health Trust in September 1981. The proceedings of the conference are to be published under the title of Psychiatry and General Practice (ed. A. W. Clare and M. H. Lader). Academic Press: London, 1982.

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