”4. In the past two centuries, urbanization has shaped landscapes and lives, making it the “sentinel demographic shift” of our times4. The relationships between mental health status and the social, cultural and physical environment have been explored for at least as long; ...
Primary care doctors in Shenzhen, China are increasingly expected to identify and prevent depressive disorder; however, they have received limited mental health training and community healthcare centres (CHC) do not provide standardised protocols for the diagnosis and care of depressive disorder. The Wo...
Community health workers (CHWs) have demonstrated effectiveness in delivering EBTs; however, the integration of CHWs in the U.S. mental health system remains limited. This Comment presents key recommendations for optimizing CHW integration into the mental health spectrum of care to better meet the n...
The trial was conducted in a real clinical field setting, using local trainers and did not exert any special influence on the usual local availability of medicines, district supervision or local health management information systems. During the course of the trial, Kenya and especially Nyanza Provin...
A 4-component framework toward patient-centered, integrated mental health care in Kenya. Front Public Health. 2021;9:756861. doi:10.3389/fpubh.2021.756861 PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 82. Loades ME, Chatburn E, Higson-Sweeney N, et al. Rapid systematic review: the ...
Craig Morgan7, Noeline Nakasujja6, Alina Sabitova1,8, Stephen Sandford4, Nelson Sewankambo6 and José Miguel Uribe Restrepo2 Abstract Background: Global mental health is a widely used term describing initiatives in policies, research and practice to improve the mental health of people worldwide....
health facilities in Ambo town, West Shoa zone, Ethiopia 2022 Wabi Temesgen Atinafu1*, Kefyalew Naniye Tilahun1, Tesfahun Melese Yilma2, Zeleke Abebaw Mekonnen2, Agmasie Damtew Walle3 and Jibril Bashir Adem4 Abstract Background Mental health ...
This is in disagreement with another study in Kenya, where the public professional health workers showed lower SE than their counterparts in pri vate facilities. However, the aforementioned study revealed similar results to our study regarding the relation ship between the profession and SE....
This paper examines how cultural, historical and contemporary perspectives of mental health continue to inform ways of understanding and responding to ment
The publication of South Africa's National Mental Health Policy Framework and Strategic Plan 2023–2030 and the proposed National Health Insurance (NHI) make it timely to review that state of mental health services in the country, and to emphasize the importance of prioritising mental health as a...