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Ethnicity in psychiatric epidemiology: Need for precision

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 January 2018

Swaran P. Singh
Swaran P. Singh*
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Psychiatric Out-patients' Department, B Floor, South Block, University Hospital, Nottingham NG7 2UH
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 171 , Issue 4 , October 1997 , pp. 305 - 308
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Copyright © 1997 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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