Community mental health in rural India: the Shifa project in Padhar Hospital, Madhya Pradesh

People with severe mental disorders in rural India have minimal access to mental health services. Project Shifa entails outreach to patients and families in 75 villages in rural central India. A team of local health workers led by one psychiatrist provide assessment, medications, education and follo...

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Autores principales: Ebenezer, Johann A., Drake, Robert E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2018
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Special Paper
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6020905/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29953122
http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bji.2017.8
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spelling pubmed-60209052018-06-27 Community mental health in rural India: the Shifa project in Padhar Hospital, Madhya Pradesh Ebenezer, Johann A. Drake, Robert E. BJPsych Int Special Paper People with severe mental disorders in rural India have minimal access to mental health services. Project Shifa entails outreach to patients and families in 75 villages in rural central India. A team of local health workers led by one psychiatrist provide assessment, medications, education and follow-up services. Cambridge University Press 2018-05 /pmc/articles/PMC6020905/ /pubmed/29953122 http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bji.2017.8 Text en © The Authors 2018 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is unaltered and is properly cited. The written permission of Cambridge University Press must be obtained for commercial re-use or in order to create a derivative work.
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title_short Community mental health in rural India: the Shifa project in Padhar Hospital, Madhya Pradesh
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