Community Psychiatry Care: An Urgent Need in Nigeria

Nigeria’s mental health policy was formulated in 1991, but it did not make adequate provision for community-based psychiatric care. Since there are only seven government-owned psychiatry facilities in Nigeria and these are always overwhelmed, there is the need to overhaul the existing policy and emp...

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Autores principales: Soroye, Modupeoluwa Omotunde, Oleribe, Obinna O, Taylor-Robinson, Simon D
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8148654/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34045861
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/JMDH.S309517
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description Nigeria’s mental health policy was formulated in 1991, but it did not make adequate provision for community-based psychiatric care. Since there are only seven government-owned psychiatry facilities in Nigeria and these are always overwhelmed, there is the need to overhaul the existing policy and emphasise the urgency of a shift from inpatient psychiatric mental healthcare towards a community-based multidisciplinary psychiatric healthcare system.
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spelling pubmed-81486542021-05-26 Community Psychiatry Care: An Urgent Need in Nigeria Soroye, Modupeoluwa Omotunde Oleribe, Obinna O Taylor-Robinson, Simon D J Multidiscip Healthc Commentary Nigeria’s mental health policy was formulated in 1991, but it did not make adequate provision for community-based psychiatric care. Since there are only seven government-owned psychiatry facilities in Nigeria and these are always overwhelmed, there is the need to overhaul the existing policy and emphasise the urgency of a shift from inpatient psychiatric mental healthcare towards a community-based multidisciplinary psychiatric healthcare system. Dove 2021-05-20 /pmc/articles/PMC8148654/ /pubmed/34045861 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/JMDH.S309517 Text en © 2021 Soroye et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This work is published by Dove Medical Press Limited, and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. The full terms of the License are available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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