Treating TB patients' mental health
SOURCE: HSRC Review
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2011
TITLE AUTHOR(S): P.Naidoo, K.Mwaba
KEYWORDS: MENTAL HEALTH, TUBERCULOSIS
DEPARTMENT: Public Health, Societies and Belonging (HSC)
Web link: http://www.hsrc.ac.za/en/review/March-2011/tb-mental-health
Intranet: HSRC Library: shelf number 6830
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/3789
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/3789
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2011
TITLE AUTHOR(S): P.Naidoo, K.Mwaba
KEYWORDS: MENTAL HEALTH, TUBERCULOSIS
DEPARTMENT: Public Health, Societies and Belonging (HSC)
Web link: http://www.hsrc.ac.za/en/review/March-2011/tb-mental-health
Intranet: HSRC Library: shelf number 6830
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/3789
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/3789
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Abstract
Treating depression and increasing the quality of social support should improve the overall management of TB infection and raise the cure rate, write PAMELA NAIDOO and KELVIN MWABA.-
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