General practitioners and mental health in the COVID-19 pandemic

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Pablo Salomón Montes-Arcón
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3021-0319
Adalberto Campo-Arias
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2201-7404

Abstract

Throughout the millennium, we have witnessed various challenges for the social order and stability of the community in the field of mental health with the outbreak of infectious diseases1. The new coronavirus (COVID-19) spread rapidly, from China to more than 200 countries and is responsible for an unprecedented pandemic of acute pneumonia2.

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Montes-Arcón, P. S. ., & Campo-Arias, A. . (2020). General practitioners and mental health in the COVID-19 pandemic. Duazary, 17(3), 4–6. https://doi.org/10.21676/2389783X.3468
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