Grand challenges: integrating mental health services into priority health care platforms.

Vikram Patel ; Gary S Belkin ; Arun Chockalingam ; Janice Cooper ; Shekhar Saxena ; Jürgen Unützer ; (2013) Grand challenges: integrating mental health services into priority health care platforms. PLoS medicine, 10 (5). e1001448-. ISSN 1549-1277 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001448

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In the last article of a five-part series providing a global perspective on integrating mental health, Vikram Patel and colleagues discuss the competencies, operational innovation, and packages of care needed, and argue that integration will complement primary care system strengthening. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary