Partnering for the World's Children: Why Collaborations Are Important.
On a global scale, psychiatric disorders are among the most common of medical morbidity. Most psychiatric disorders have their onset in childhood and adolescence when prevention and early intervention can prevent a lifetime of suffering, disability, and stigma. Thus, we share in a global responsibility to transcend cultural and political boundaries to identify childhood-onset psychiatric illness as an international public health crisis that demands the attention and efforts of physicians and other clinicians, families, stakeholders, and policy makers around the world.
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Children's National Medical Center, George Washington University School of Medicine, 111 Michigan Avenue Northwest, Floor 2.5 West, Suite 700, Washington, DC 20010, USA. Electronic address: pjoshi@childrensnational.org.
Paramjit T
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Joshi
Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, University of California San Francisco, Box 0984-CAS, Room LP-152, 401 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94143-0984, USA.
Bennett L
BL
Leventhal
Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Policlínica Gipuzkoa, Paseo de Miramón 174, Donostia-San Sebastián 20014, Spain.
Joaquin
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D002648:Child; D000067576:Child Health / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000592:standards*; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D014943:Global Health / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000592:standards*
Children; Collaboration; Global; Mental health; Psychiatric disorders