From global-to-local: rural mental health in South Africa

In this paper, the current situation regarding rural mental health in South Africa is explored. The current status is presented, followed by an attempt to provide approaches and ideas to improve the situation in order to make it more context appropriate and relevant. Issues of staffing, task shiftin...

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Autor principal: Vergunst, Richard
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7012042/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29320947
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/16549716.2017.1413916
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spelling pubmed-70120422020-02-24 From global-to-local: rural mental health in South Africa Vergunst, Richard Glob Health Action Commentary In this paper, the current situation regarding rural mental health in South Africa is explored. The current status is presented, followed by an attempt to provide approaches and ideas to improve the situation in order to make it more context appropriate and relevant. Issues of staffing, task shifting or sharing, and formal vs informal health care systems are considered and discussed as possible future approaches to improve rural mental health care in South Africa. Taylor & Francis 2018-01-11 /pmc/articles/PMC7012042/ /pubmed/29320947 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/16549716.2017.1413916 Text en © 2018 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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