Mental Health Literacy: It Is Now Time to Put Knowledge into Practice

The term 'mental health literacy' was first introduced in 1997, and it was defined as 'knowledge and beliefs about mental disorders which aid their recognition, management or prevention' [...].

• Publication year

  2022

• Venue

  International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

• Publication date

  2022-06-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.3390/ijerph19127030PMID 35742278PMCID 9222847
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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