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The authors review recently published psychiatric epidemiological data from the People's Republic of China, and compare these findings with data from Taiwan and worldwide.
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Lin, KM., Kleinman, A. Recent development of psychiatric epidemiology in China. Cult Med Psych 5, 135–143 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00055417
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