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Community Psychiatry  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Psychiatry, Community

Scope note

  • Branch of psychiatry concerned with the provision and delivery of a coordinated program of mental health care to a specified population. The foci included in this concept are: all social, psychological and physical factors related to etiology, prevention, and maintaining positive mental health in the community.

History note

  • 80; was PSYCHIATRY, COMMUNITY 1971-79 (Prov 1971-72)

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D003158

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