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Mike Mitka

JAMA. 2000;283:1277-1278.

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Chicago—After witnessing more than a decade of genocide, murder, and the horrors of war, the people of the Balkans are trying to put their countries and themselves back together to resume their prewar lives.

The bombed buildings are being rebuilt, and people are returning to their old jobs. But because the people cannot simply forget what they have been through and function as if nothing unusual has happened, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, and Kosovo face the problem, say local experts, of treating as much as one fourth of their populations for mild to severe psychiatric disorders.

"We have a very large number of clients who have war-related psychiatric disorders," said Ferid Agani, MD, an associate director of clinical services at University Hospital in Kosovo. "It's estimated that around 23% of our people have symptoms of posttraumatic stress syndrome."

COMING TO CHICAGO

The mental health systems in the Balkans were . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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