Mental health
The neglected issue of mental health in developing countries; mental health and vulnerable populations; depression; suicide; post-partum depression; post-traumatic stress; dementia.
Latest Documents
- There is a need for a systemic and strategic approach to scaling up mental health services
- L.M. Cay; M. Semrau; S. Chatterjee / The Lancet, 2011
- Mental disorders constitute a huge global burden of disease, and there is a large treatment gap, particularly in low-income and middle-income countries. This paper assesses the progress in scaling up mental health services worldwide, ...
- Guidelines for improving mental health policies and services
- M. Funk (ed); M. Freeman (ed); N. Drew (ed) / World Health Organization, 2009
- This document outlines a comprehensive strategy for how to improve mental health policy and service development. It shows that lack of political support, inadequate management, overburdened health services and, at times, re...
- Examining the relationship between poverty and postnatal depression in developing countries
- E. Coast; T. Leone; A. Hirose / LSE Research Online, 2012
- There is no systematic assessment of how poverty or socio-economic status and postnatal depression (PND) might be related in low and lower middle income countries (LLMICs). The objective of this paper is to describe the extent of rese...
- An epidemiological study of suicide in India
- V. Patel; C. Ramasundarahettige; L. Vijayakumar / The Lancet, 2012
- Suicide death rates in India are among the highest in the world, but few epidemiological studies of suicide have been done in the country. This paper relies on a field survey conducted in India in 2010 to provide nationally-representa...
- Ageways 78: Ageing and Dementia
- C. Till / HelpAge International, 2012
- Population ageing is a major achievement of better healthcare. But as a result, we are seeing many more people getting Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. Policy-makers have been slow to see the implications of ageing for he...
- Aceh Free Pasung: Releasing the mentally ill from physical restraint
- I. Puteh / International Journal of Mental Health Systems, 2011
- This article describes the Aceh Free Pasung programme, which is an important mental health and human rights initiative. It can serve to inform similar efforts in other parts of Indonesia and other low and middle-income countries where...
- An assessment of mental health policy in Ghana, South Africa, Uganda and Zambia
- E. Faydi / Health Research Policy and Systems, 2011
- Approximately half of the countries in the African Region had a mental health policy by 2005, but little is known about quality of mental health policies in Africa and globally. This paper reports the results of an assessment of the m...
- Lessons from case studies of integrating mental health into primary health care in South Africa and Uganda
- I. Petersen / International Journal of Mental Health Systems, 2011
- While decentralised and integrated primary mental healthcare forms the core of mental health policies in many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), implementation remains a challenge. The aim of this study was to understand how th...
- Developing and implementing mental health policy in Zanzibar, a low income country off the coast of East Africa
- R. Jenkins / International Journal of Mental Health Systems, 2012
- This article describes the facilitation over many years by a WHO Collaborating Centre, of sustainable mental health developments in Zanzibar, one of the poorest countries in the world, using systematic approaches to policy design and ...
- Mental Health Atlas 2011
- World Health Organization, 2011
- Project Atlas was launched by the WHO in 2000 in an attempt to map mental health resources in the world. This information was updated in 2005. The 2011 version of the Atlas represents the latest global picture of resources available t...
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