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Editorial: Mental Health as a Public Health Issue

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  1. Braun School of Public Health, Hebrew University-Hadassah, Ein Karem, Jerusalem, Israel

    Theodore H. Tulchinsky MD, MPH (Deputy Editor, Public Health Reviews; Emeritus Professor)

  2. School of Medicine, University Paris Descartes, Sorbonne, Paris Cité, France

    Antoine Flahault MD, PhD (Editor in Chief, Public Health Reviews; Professor of Public Health)

  3. Department of Community Mental Health, Faculty of Health Sciences and Social Welfare, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

    Itzhak Levav MD, MSc

  4. Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

    Ezra Susser MD, DrPH

  5. Ecole des Hautes Études en Santé Publique (EHESP), Paris and Rennes, France

    Viviane Kovess-Masfety MD, PhD

  6. Centre for Mental Health Law and Policy, India Law Society, Pune, India

    Soumitra Pathare MD

  7. School of Public Health, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kiev, Ukraine

    Irena Gryga MD, PhD

  8. New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, USA

    Ezra Susser MD, DrPH

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Tulchinsky, T.H., Flahault, A., Levav, I. et al. Editorial: Mental Health as a Public Health Issue. Public Health Rev 34, 1 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03391669

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