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Patel, V; (2009) The future of psychiatry in low- and middle-income countries. Psychological medicine. pp. 1-4. ISSN 0033-2917

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Abstract

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.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty and Department:	Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health > Dept of Population Health (2012- ) > Dept of Nutrition and Public Health Interventions Research (2003-2012) Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health > Dept of Population Health (2012- )
Research Centre:	Centre for Global Mental Health Centre for Global Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs)
PubMed ID:	19215633
URI:	http://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/id/eprint/5908

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