Public mental health services in Mumbai

Mumbai, India’s largest city, also has the distinction of being the most populous city in the world. The association between urbanisation and mental illness has been widely documented (Harpham & Blue, 1995, especially pp. 41–60). Mumbai is characterised by dense slums housing large migrant popul...

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Autores principales: Akhuly, Ajanta, Kulkarni, Mrinmoyi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6734987/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31508057
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description Mumbai, India’s largest city, also has the distinction of being the most populous city in the world. The association between urbanisation and mental illness has been widely documented (Harpham & Blue, 1995, especially pp. 41–60). Mumbai is characterised by dense slums housing large migrant populations facing stressful lives. The state of publicly funded mental health facilities in Mumbai has special significance in this context, since they are the only resource available to a large economically vulnerable section of the population. The objective of the present study was to evaluate the public mental health services in Mumbai and to identify areas for improvement.
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spelling pubmed-67349872019-09-10 Public mental health services in Mumbai Akhuly, Ajanta Kulkarni, Mrinmoyi Int Psychiatry Original Paper Mumbai, India’s largest city, also has the distinction of being the most populous city in the world. The association between urbanisation and mental illness has been widely documented (Harpham & Blue, 1995, especially pp. 41–60). Mumbai is characterised by dense slums housing large migrant populations facing stressful lives. The state of publicly funded mental health facilities in Mumbai has special significance in this context, since they are the only resource available to a large economically vulnerable section of the population. The objective of the present study was to evaluate the public mental health services in Mumbai and to identify areas for improvement. The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2010-10-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6734987/ /pubmed/31508057 Text en © 2010 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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