General Hospital Psychiatry
Volume 32, Issue 5 , Pages 514-518 , September 2010

Reducing suicides through an alliance against depression?

  • Bettina Hübner-Liebermann, M.Sc.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Regensburg, 93042 Regensburg, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +49 (0)941/941 1621; fax: +49 (0)941/941 1605.
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  • Tanja Neuner, M.Sc.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Regensburg, 93042 Regensburg, Germany
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  • Ulrich Hegerl, M.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Leipzig, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
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  • Göran Hajak, M.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Regensburg, 93042 Regensburg, Germany
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  • Hermann Spießl, M.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Regensburg, 93042 Regensburg, Germany
    • Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, State Hospital Landshut, 84034 Landshut, Germany

Received 24 February 2009 ,Accepted 29 June 2010.

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 Recent epidemiologic studies have found that most patients with mental illness are seen exclusively in primary care medicine. These patients often present with medically unexplained somatic symptoms and utilize at least twice as many health care visits as controls. There has been an exponential growth in studies in this interface between primary care and psychiatry in the last 10 years. This special section, edited by Jürgen Unutzer, M.D., will publish informative research articles that address primary care-psychiatric issues.

PII: S0163-8343(10)00137-4

doi: 10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2010.06.008

General Hospital Psychiatry
Volume 32, Issue 5 , Pages 514-518 , September 2010

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