Implementation and Scale-up of Psycho-trauma Centers in a Post-conflict Area: a Case Study of a Private-public Partnership in Northern Uganda

Overview

Journal PLoS Med

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2013 Apr 24

PMID 23610562

Citations 18

Authors

Etheldreda Nakimuli-Mpungu

Stephen Alderman

Eugene Kinyanda

Kathleen Allden

Theresa S Betancourt

Jeffrey S Alderman

Alison Pavia

James Okello

Juliet Nakku

Alex Adaku

Seggane Musisi

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Abstract

As one article in an ongoing series on Global Mental Health Practice, Etheldreda Nakimuli-Mpungu and colleagues describe a private-public partnership that implemented and scaled psycho-trauma centers in Northern Uganda.

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