NigeriaPublic healthIn 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 ...
The program was implemented over 18 months in 8 selected local government areas (LGAs) in Osun state of Nigeria, using the WHO Mental Health Gap Action Programme Intervention Guide (mhGAP-IG), which had been contextualized for the local setting. A well supervised cascade training model was ut...
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. ...
A., 1997, Organizational development strategies for integrating mental health services, Community Mental Health Journal, 33, 3, 175-187... Michael,A.,HogeRichard,... - 《Community Mental Health Journal》 被引量: 72发表: 1997年 Integrating mental health into primary care in Nigeria: report of ...
Understanding mental illness in Nigeria: Bringing culture and traditional medicine into mental health policy Advocacy for mental illness is severely inadequate due to fear of stigmatization, with no formally recognized national of regional mental health association.^Stephanie E UrigweUrigwe, S.E. (2010...
Despite the burden of mental disorders among PDJS in Africa, research in this area is sparse [3,19]. Existing international systematic reviews on the mental health of PDJS have either included studies in only one African country, Nigeria [2], or none at all [4,5,20,21]. Moreover, the...
PERCEIVED RELATIVE FACTORS INFLUENCING NURSES' PRACTICE OF HEALTH PROMOTION FOR WOMEN IN CALABAR, CROSS RIVER STATE, NIGERIA Socio-cultural factors negate the health of women. Therefore, health promotion as a focus of nursing practice aimed at capitalizing on the inherent capacit... PE Samson-Akpan...
For instance, a poll on mental health conducted by the Africa Polling Institute (API) and EpiAFRIC in Nigeria, the most populous nation in Africa, reveals a poor awareness of mental health, with the majority of respondents unaware that they have mental health illnesses [1]. Most patients ...
The Mental health care: Adverse Sequalae of COVID-19 (MASC) study is a multi-country study carried out in Chile, Ethiopia, Georgia, Nigeria, South Africa, Sri Lanka and Ukraine. The MASC study will produce comparable evidence on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on people with MHCs ac...
The book examines mental health conditions and services in terms of diagnoses, causes, treatment and psycho-social services provided by some countries in Africa, namely Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Uganda and Zambia. Even though, mental health issues have been written ...