Five-Year Trend in Issuing Disability Certificates from a General Hospital Psychiatric Unit in South India
Background: Mental disability is a common condition but is considered as an invisible disability. The disability certificate in psychiatry remains underexplored. Some reasons are issues of confidentiality, stigma, lack of awareness in the public, and the hesitancy in the mental health professionals....
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2020-09-01
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Series: | Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/0253717620947163 |