In Nigeria, the disparity between available healthcare services and need for mental health services is palpable. Although, the country has made significant advances on challenging public health problems, health-related policy development and legislation in trying to achieve health for all policy, there...
The government has a lot of work to do in improving the mental health space in Nigeria. First off, the political will to make a change is paramount seeing as we still uphold the lunacy act and have a defunct Mental health policy that has not been reviewed since 1991. ...
for example in Argentina, Brazil, and Nicaragua. Other countries such as Barbados, Ghana, and Qatar have also developed some community care facilities. Services of traditional healers are being used as part of community care in many countries such as Cambodia, Guinea, Niger, Nigeria, and Senegal...
We foundthat different categories of people reported psychological impacts during theCOVID-19 lockdown. The Yoruba ethnic group, in the southwest region of Nigeria, adjusted better to the situation than other ethnic groups. The Igbo people, in the southeast region, were not that worried when comp...
Two hypotheses are typically invoked to examine the referral of adults into mental health care. The first is the clinical behavior hypothesis that suggests... DT Takeuchi,M Cheung - 《Ethnicity & Health》 被引量: 28发表: 1998年 Mental health care in prison: How to manage our care In the ...
The other study highlighted that health extension workers’ negative attitudes and stigma act as barriers to the integration of child mental health services into primary care [59]. In Nigeria, HCWs showed poor attitudes toward CAMH, with a significant percentage believing that children with mental ...
Mental health problems are the most common morbidities of women during the prenatal period. In LMICs mobile phones have been identified as a good vehicle for monitoring individuals with a high risk of mental health conditions. However, evidence is scarce
25 Orphanages Across Nigeria Get N1.2m Donation Each Latest|3 years ago Share Share Share Tweet Email Mary Nnah Medical Director of Tranquil and Quest Behavioral Health, Lagos, Gbonjubola Abiri has called on Federal and State Governments to increase budgetary allocatio...
Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Uyo, NigeriaCorresponding Author: Mike Zachery Department of Anatomy Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences University of Uyo, Nigeria E-mail: zachM76@uniuyo.edu.ngReceived Date: November 03, 2021; Acc...
A dramatic decline in mental health of people worldwide in the early COVID-19 pandemic years has not recovered. In rural and remote Australia, access to appropriate and timely mental health services has been identified as a major barrier to people seeking help for mental ill-health. From 2020...