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“Mainstream Western models of mental health are grounded in individualism and diagnostic categorisation that often fail to account for the relational, spiritual, and collective dimensions of how wellbeing is understood and expressed across Pacific worldviews [15,16,17].”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Summerfield, D.
- Venue
- BMJ
- Publisher
- BMJ
- Published
- 2008-05-01
- Volume
- 336
- Issue
- 7651
- Pages
- 992-994
- ISSN
- 0959-8138
- 1756-1833
- Cited by
- 258
- References
- 1
- Language
- en
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