But even with a growing list of free nations around the world, America uniquely bursts with clubs, civic organizations, church groups, self-help groups and the like.
Ask your doctor about self-help groups or therapists in your community.
It is run by and centred on a network of women's self-help groups (SHG) and linked to a government school and a local development resource centre.
He has created a health-insurance scheme, working with various local self-help groups, that covers 2.5m people for a premium of about 11 cents a month each.
And as male executives supposedly feel downtrodden by female rivals, several British firms are setting up male-only self-help groups to give men the confidence to assert themselves in the office.
As others have noted, the ban also reflected the fact that the government oversees its own lending scheme, the Self-Help Groups (SHGs), and that the suicides presented a great opportunity to shut down competitors.
By eight weeks into the study, the acupuncture patients were showing a significant improvement in knee function, and by 14 weeks their pain levels had dropped sharply compared with the sham acupuncture and self-help groups.
Visitors to the site have access to a variety of services, including online publications, information on support and self-help groups, and links to government agencies and not-for-profit organizations that produce reliable information for the public.
Unilever has long had a strong distribution network in India, but it has expanded its efforts with a division called Shakti, which provides Indian women's self-help groups with business education and the chance to earn a living selling cheap sachets of Unilever products.
Frustrated at the lack of urgency shown by government in overcoming such inequities, some black Brazilians have set up self-help education groups.
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"Anti-depressants do play a part but we tend to use a raft of different measures including talking groups and more recently self-help books, " Dr MacMoreland added.
Like a lot of people I thought patient Web groups were merely chat boards and self-help news distribution.
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