Traditional healers and provision of mental health services in cosmopolitan informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya

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AW Mbwayo · Africa Mental Health Foundation

Victoria Mutiso · Africa Mental Health Foundation

LI Khasakhala · Africa Mental Health Foundation

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There is a need to educate healers on how to recognize different types of mental disorders and make referrals when patients are not responding to their treatments.

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Published in: African Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 16, Issue 2, pp. 134-40

DOI: 10.4314/ajpsy.v16i2.17

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Traditional healers and provision of mental health services in cosmopolitan informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya

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