Challenging claims that mental illness has been increasing and mental well-being declining
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.02.053
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Mental illness; Mental well-being; Depression; Anxiety; Secular changes; Measures of mental illness; Measures of mental well-being; Psychiatric disorder;All these keywords.
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