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Action on mental health needs global cooperation

As threats to populations transcend national boundaries, it is crucial that responses to mental-health problems do too, say Pamela Y. Collins and Shekhar Saxena.

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Collins, P., Saxena, S. Action on mental health needs global cooperation. Nature 532, 25–27 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/532025a

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