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Vikram Patel and other global mental health leaders call for a special session of the UN General Assembly to discuss and debate action needed on mental, neurological, and substance use disorders, which have been left off the international NCDs agenda.

Community health centers are playing an increasingly central role in providing mental health/substance abuse treatment services in the United States. It is critical both to ensure that these centers have adequate resources for providing mental health/substance abuse care and that they develop effective linkages with mental health/substance abuse clinicians in the communities they serve.

Community health centers are playing an increasingly central role in providing mental health/substance abuse treatment services in the United States. It is critical both to ensure that these centers have adequate resources for providing mental health/substance abuse care and that they develop effective linkages with mental health/substance abuse clinicians in the communities they serve.

Throughout human history, individual and group migration has played an important role in the social evolution of human society by contributing to cultural and biological diversity. This diversity has permitted human beings to thrive in the face of adversity by providing an ever-changing set of perspectives and solutions to pressing environmental demands. Within this context, opinions and judgments about the merits of human migration are historically irrelevant. Migration has been and will continue to be an integral part of the human response to threat and opportunity, even in the face of the obvious hardships and hazards that are part of the departure, transit, arrival, and resettlement phases of migration. The "promise" has This chapter is reprinted in expanded and updated form from the Journal of Refugee Studies, 1992, 5(2), Oxford University Press.

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