Mental health policy in Kenya - an integrated approach to scaling up equitable care for poor populations - Kiima, Jenkins () Citation Context ...s of primary care staff about mental illness [17]; previous surveys of primaryscare [18]; adaptation of the WHO primary care guidelines for Kenya...
In the United States, 2023 saw a record number of anti-LGBT+ bills introduced in the US Congress. Uganda, Kenya and Ghana have also seen new proposed legislation that criminalizes same-sex activity. Against this backdrop, international solidarity marches, such as the first coordinated continental...
"I think that these youths will be a game-changer in the management of mental health in Kenya as they will have a great impact at a time when the country is facing a huge challenge in mental health during the Covid-19 pandemic which has made the situation even worse," he adds. Nomina...
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 ...
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Launched in 2005, it is an innovative strategy that has been replicated in other African countries like Kenya and Malawi, and as far away as New York and London. “Depression is a killer disease because if you have many things in your mind, you can die,” Chimbwero told Efe. ...
Little is known about the interventions required to build the capacity of mental health policy-makers and planners in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). We conducted a systematic review with the primary aim of identifying and synthesizing the evidence base for building the capacity of policy...
Rural health centers face substantial challenges to care for such patients – namely the lack of mental-health specialists. More than half of the counties in Washington have no practicing psychiatrist, psychologist or social worker – a situation that, as recently as 2007, was mirrored...
This book seeks to boldly rectify this situation by identifying innovative models of service delivery, training, education, research funding, and payment systems that have proven to be exemplary in implementation and scalability or have potential for scalability. Chapters describe specific barriers and ch...
in low- and lower-middle-income contexts demonstrated that adolescent polyvictimization in these settings was more prevalent than in high-income settings; in African countries, estimates ranged from 47 to 63% prevalence in samples drawn from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Sierra Leon...