Commentary Open Access
Volume 1 | Issue 2 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.46439/Psychiatry.1.007
Commentary on: A comparison of the prevalence of psychiatric disorders in Puerto Rico with the United States and the Puerto Rican population of the United States
Glorisa Canino1,*
- 1Director, Behavioral Sciences Research Institute, University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus, San Juan PR 00936, USA
Corresponding Author
Glorisa Canino, glorisa.canino@upr.edu
Received Date: November 24, 2020
Accepted Date: March 31, 2021
Canino G. Commentary on: A comparison of the prevalence of psychiatric disorders in Puerto Rico with the United States and the Puerto Rican population of the United States. Curr Res Psychiatry. 2021; 1(2):20-21.
Copyright: © 2021 Canino G. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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