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Mental health in Zambia - challenges and way forward

Part of: BJPsych International Country Profiles Collection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Jedrin Ngungu  and
Julian Beezhold
Jedrin Ngungu
Affiliation:
Norfolk and Waveney Mental Health Foundation Trust, email ngunguj@yahoo.com (former Acting Medical Director for a year at Chainama Hills Hospital, Zambia)
Julian Beezhold
Affiliation:
Norfolk and Waveney Mental Health Foundation Trust
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Zambia, previously called Northern Rhodesia, was a colony of Great Britain until 1964, when it gained independence and changed its name. It is a landlocked country located in southern Africa and shares its borders with Zimbabwe, Namibia, Botswana, Mozambique, Malawi, Tanzania, Congo and Angola. It has an area of 752 612 km2, about three times the size of Britain, but a population of only 12 million.

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International Psychiatry , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , April 2009 , pp. 39 - 40
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