Journal
PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE
Volume 39, Issue 11, Pages 1759-1762Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291709005224
Keywords
Developing countries; psychiatrists; public health
Categories
Ask authors/readers for more resources
The great shortage, and inequitable distribution, of psychiatrists in low- and middle-income countries is one of the key reasons for the large treatment gap for people with mental disorders. Psychiatrists need to play a public mental health leadership role in increasing the coverage of mental health care through task shifting of effective interventions to non-specialist health workers. Psychiatrists' new roles should include designing and managing such programmes, building clinical capacity, supervision and quality assurance, providing referral pathways and research.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available