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Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health
Published in: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 1/2016

Open Access 01-12-2016 | Editorial

Building research capacity for child and adolescent mental health in Africa

Authors: Olayinka Olusola Omigbodun, Myron Lowell Belfer

Published in: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health | Issue 1/2016

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There is an urgent need to address the wide disparity between scientific research on Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) emanating from high-resource settings, and low-resource settings like Africa [1‐4]. Africa has a largely youthful population with over 50 % children and adolescents, many of whom live in ‘Exceptionally Difficult Circumstances’ with increased risk for mental disorders [5, 6]. The challenge is to develop both research capacity and to then have the relevant research published in widely disseminated journals. …
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Metadata
Title
Building research capacity for child and adolescent mental health in Africa
Authors
Olayinka Olusola Omigbodun
Myron Lowell Belfer
Publication date
01-12-2016
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health / Issue 1/2016
Electronic ISSN: 1753-2000
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s13034-016-0119-2

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