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Psychiatry in India

Part of: BJPsych International Country Profiles Collection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Vikram Patel  and
Shekhar Saxena
Vikram Patel
Affiliation:
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and the Sangath Society, Goa, India
Shekhar Saxena
Affiliation:
Mental Health: Evidence and Research, Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland
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Abstract

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India is a low-income country that is characterised by huge diversity within and between its 35 states and union territories. For example, the infant mortality rate (per 1000 live births) ranges from a low of 16.3 in Kerala to a high of 86.7 in Uttar Pradesh, over a fivefold difference (International Institute for Population Sciences & ORC Macro, 2001). This considerable variation is evident in virtually every aspect of human development in India, and any summary figures are likely to be unrepresentative of most parts of the country. Within the scope of this short article, this important limitation of averages must be recognised at the outset.

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International Psychiatry , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , July 2003 , pp. 16 - 18
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