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Mental health in primary healthcare in Chile

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Alfredo Pemjean
Alfredo Pemjean*
Affiliation:
Department of Mental Health, Ministry of Health of Chile Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile, email alfredopemjean@vtr.net
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Chile has two major national health systems, the public one, which serves nearly 80% of the country's close to 17 million population, and the private one, which serves the other 20%. The public primary healthcare system has been developing in Chile since before the Alma Ata Conference in 1978 (which produced the first international declaration on the importance of primary healthcare).

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Thematic Paper - Mental Health Services in Primary Care
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International Psychiatry , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , January 2010 , pp. 7 - 8
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