Lebanon: mental health system reform and the Syrian crisis

The Lebanese Ministry of Public Health has launched a National Mental Health Programme, which in turn has established the Mental Health and Substance Use Strategy for Lebanon 2015–2020. In parallel, research involving refugees has been conducted since the onset of the Syrian crisis. The findings poi...

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Autores principales: Karam, Elie, El Chammay, Rabih, Richa, Sami, Naja, Wadih, Fayyad, John, Ammar, Walid
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2016
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Thematic Paper
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5619489/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29093915
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author Karam, Elie
El Chammay, Rabih
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Naja, Wadih
Fayyad, John
Ammar, Walid
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description The Lebanese Ministry of Public Health has launched a National Mental Health Programme, which in turn has established the Mental Health and Substance Use Strategy for Lebanon 2015–2020. In parallel, research involving refugees has been conducted since the onset of the Syrian crisis. The findings point to an increase in mental health disorders in the Syrian refugee population, which now numbers more than 1 million.
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spelling pubmed-56194892017-11-01 Lebanon: mental health system reform and the Syrian crisis Karam, Elie El Chammay, Rabih Richa, Sami Naja, Wadih Fayyad, John Ammar, Walid BJPsych Int Thematic Paper The Lebanese Ministry of Public Health has launched a National Mental Health Programme, which in turn has established the Mental Health and Substance Use Strategy for Lebanon 2015–2020. In parallel, research involving refugees has been conducted since the onset of the Syrian crisis. The findings point to an increase in mental health disorders in the Syrian refugee population, which now numbers more than 1 million. The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2016-11-01 /pmc/articles/PMC5619489/ /pubmed/29093915 Text en © 2016 The Royal College of Psychiatrists http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Non-Commercial, No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29093915
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