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Details for Professor Ricardo Araya
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| Name | Professor Ricardo Araya | ||
| Job title | Professor of Psychiatry |
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| Department | School of Social and Community Medicine University of Bristol |
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| Contact details | This expert can be contacted via the University of Bristol Public Relations
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| Membership of professional bodies | Royal College of Psychiatrists |
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| Keywords | mental disorders low and middle income countries psychosocial inequalities smoking epidemiology |
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| Areas of expertise | The etiology of common mental disorders, in particular psychosocial factors associated with anxiety and depression. Social, demographic, and economic inequalities and their link to the mental health of the population with special emphasis on international comparisons. Effective treatments for common mental disorders, in particular simple interventions using non-medical workers and strong community participation. |
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| Media experience | Given interviews in radio and TV in a few occasions |
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