Psychopathologies rencontrées sur l'île de Mayotte entre 1998 et 2004

The results of this study consolidate the impressions felt by the experts and show the effects of the mental health policy on the island. Thus, the assumption of responsibility of chronic psychotics made it possible to improve their quality of life, and to decrease the number of medical evacuations that decreased from 17 to three, between 2001 and 2004. However, this study also underlined the possible axes of development in this field, namely the assumption of responsibility of psychiatric emergencies with a crisis centre, and the development of a specialized pedopsychiatric assumption of responsibility. Indeed, in the first six months of 2004, 35% of the patients were 0-20 year-old.