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Digital psychiatry in low- and middle-income countries post-COVID-19: Opportunities, challenges, and solutions

Health systems are adapting to the unique challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Social distancing has forced clinicians to provide their services through online platforms in high income countries. Similar trends have been noticed in Low and middle-income countries (LAMIC). Digital health can he...

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Autores principales: Naeem, Farooq, Husain, M. Omair, Husain, M. Ishrat, Javed, Afzal
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7659769/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33227054
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/psychiatry.IndianJPsychiatry_843_20
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description Health systems are adapting to the unique challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Social distancing has forced clinicians to provide their services through online platforms in high income countries. Similar trends have been noticed in Low and middle-income countries (LAMIC). Digital health can help LAMIC address traditional barriers to care by overcoming issues related to stigma, discrimination, staffing, and physical and geographical resource constraints. Mobile phone subscriptions exceed 80% of the population in many LAMICs. Mobile platforms represent a viable resource in overcoming the significant mental health gap in LAMIC. This paper discusses the enormous potential that digital health has to transform healthcare delivery in LAMICs, as well as numerous challenges to implementation. We also discuss the need to develop national digital health strategies and suggest solutions to some of the barriers.
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spelling pubmed-76597692020-11-19 Digital psychiatry in low- and middle-income countries post-COVID-19: Opportunities, challenges, and solutions Naeem, Farooq Husain, M. Omair Husain, M. Ishrat Javed, Afzal Indian J Psychiatry Review Article Health systems are adapting to the unique challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Social distancing has forced clinicians to provide their services through online platforms in high income countries. Similar trends have been noticed in Low and middle-income countries (LAMIC). Digital health can help LAMIC address traditional barriers to care by overcoming issues related to stigma, discrimination, staffing, and physical and geographical resource constraints. Mobile phone subscriptions exceed 80% of the population in many LAMICs. Mobile platforms represent a viable resource in overcoming the significant mental health gap in LAMIC. This paper discusses the enormous potential that digital health has to transform healthcare delivery in LAMICs, as well as numerous challenges to implementation. We also discuss the need to develop national digital health strategies and suggest solutions to some of the barriers. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020-09 2020-09-28 /pmc/articles/PMC7659769/ /pubmed/33227054 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/psychiatry.IndianJPsychiatry_843_20 Text en Copyright: © 2020 Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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