Poverty, unemployment, and common mental disorders: population based cohort study.

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Published in BMJ on July 11, 1998

Authors

S Weich1, G Lewis

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1: University Department of Psychiatry, Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, London NW3 2PG. scott@rfhsm.ac.uk

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