Veteran and military mental health: the Australian experience

David Forbes1, Olivia Metcalf2

  • 1Professor and Director, Australian Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, Australia, email dforbes@unimelb.edu.au.

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