کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
10169894 1223348 2009 8 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Scaling up services for mental and neurological disorders in low-resource settings
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم پزشکی و سلامت پزشکی و دندانپزشکی بیماری های عفونی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Scaling up services for mental and neurological disorders in low-resource settings
چکیده انگلیسی
Mental and neurological disorders (MNDs) account for a large, and growing, burden of disease in low- and middle-income countries. Most people do not have access to even basic health care for these disorders. Recent evidence shows that task-shifting to non-specialist community health workers is a feasible and effective strategy for delivery of efficacious treatments for specific MND in low-resource settings. New global initiatives, such as the WHO's mental health Gap Action Program, are utilizing this evidence to devise packages of care for specific MNDs. This paper describes a plan that seeks to integrate the evidence on the treatment of specific MNDs, based on a task-shifting paradigm, for scaling up services for MNDs at the level of a defined population. The plan was developed by a state government in India in collaboration with technical partners, as a model District Mental Health Program for India's National Mental Health Program.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: International Health - Volume 1, Issue 1, September 2009, Pages 37-44
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