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WHO Guide to Mental and Neurological Health in Primary Care: A Guide to Mental and Neurological Ill Health in Adults and Children and Adolescents.

Adapted with permission from Diagnostic and Management Guidelines for Mental Disorders in Primary Care: ICD-10 Chapter V Primary Care Version, published on behalf of the World Health Organization by Hogrefe & Huber Publishers, Rohnsweg 25, D-37085 Goettingen, Germany. ISBN 0 88937 148 2.
© 1996 World Health Organization

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First edition 2000
Second edition 2004
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Reprinted 2000

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(i) Primary care organizations within the UK and Ireland are encouraged to develop and disseminate local versions of this guide, following notification of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training for Mental Health. Contact Professor Rachel Jenkins, Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre, Department of Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AF. Tel: 020 7848 0668. Fax: 020 7848 0669. E-mail: r.jenkins@iop.kcl.ac.uk

(ii) Primary care organizations outside the UK and Ireland are encouraged to develop local versions of this guide. For permission, please contact Dr Bedirhan Ustun, Assessment, Classification and Epidemiology Group, World Health Organization, 20 Avenue Appia, CH-1211, Geneva 27, Switzerland. Fax: +41 22 791 4885. E-mail: ustunb@who.ch

(iii) Purchasers of this book may wish to print copies of the resource material for use with their patients. This is acceptable to the publisher who, nevertheless, disclaims any responsibility for the consequences of any such use of this material in clinical practice. This permission does not extend to making multiple copies for resale.

The authors have worked to ensure that all information in this book containing drug dosages, schedules and routes of administration is accurate at time of publication and consistent with standards set by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the general medical community. As medical research and practice advance, however, therapeutic standards may change. For this reason, and because human and mechanical errors sometimes occur, we recommend that readers follow the advice of a physician who is directly involved in their care or in the care of a member of their family.

Reference this book as: Jenkins, R ed. WHO Guide to Mental and Neurological Health in Primary Care. London: Royal Society of Medicine Press, 2004.

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