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The role of psychiatry in the public mental health delivery system: An introduction

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  1. Florida Mental Health Institute, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida

    Bruce Lubotsky Levin Dr.P.H. (Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Policy Analysis) & Jack Zusman M.D., M.P.H. (Professor and Director)

  2. Department of Epidemiology and Policy Analysis, Florida Mental Health Institute, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida

    Robert M. Friedman Ph.D. (Professor and Chairperson)

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  1. Bruce Lubotsky Levin Dr.P.H.
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The papers which follow are revised and expanded versions of presentations made at the “Conference on Improving Florida's Services for the Mentally Ill: The Role of Psychiatry”, held in Tallahassee, Florida on October 7–8, 1986, and organized by the Florida Mental Health Institute, University of South Florida. The conference was sponsored by the Florida Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services through the Committee on Public Psychiatry. The authors and their organizational affiliations are listed below

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Levin, B.L., Friedman, R.M. & Zusman, J. The role of psychiatry in the public mental health delivery system: An introduction. Psych Quart 59, 83–87 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01065097

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