Maternal mental health services in Sri Lanka: challenges and solutions

Sri Lanka boasts of making significant strides in the indicators of maternal healthcare during the past few decades. However, these indicators mostly look only at the physical well-being of women. Lack of awareness regarding maternal mental health problems among grass-root level healthcare workers,...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Hapangama, Aruni, Kuruppuarachchi, K.A.L.A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2021
Materias:
Country Profile
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8554894/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34747934
http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bji.2020.52
_version_ 1784591880919449600
author Hapangama, Aruni
Kuruppuarachchi, K.A.L.A.
author_facet Hapangama, Aruni
Kuruppuarachchi, K.A.L.A.
author_sort Hapangama, Aruni
collection PubMed
description Sri Lanka boasts of making significant strides in the indicators of maternal healthcare during the past few decades. However, these indicators mostly look only at the physical well-being of women. Lack of awareness regarding maternal mental health problems among grass-root level healthcare workers, poor integration of services, and the culture and stigma regarding perinatal mental disorders are barriers to improving services in maternal mental healthcare in Sri Lanka.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-8554894
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2021
publisher Cambridge University Press
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-85548942021-11-06 Maternal mental health services in Sri Lanka: challenges and solutions Hapangama, Aruni Kuruppuarachchi, K.A.L.A. BJPsych Int Country Profile Sri Lanka boasts of making significant strides in the indicators of maternal healthcare during the past few decades. However, these indicators mostly look only at the physical well-being of women. Lack of awareness regarding maternal mental health problems among grass-root level healthcare workers, poor integration of services, and the culture and stigma regarding perinatal mental disorders are barriers to improving services in maternal mental healthcare in Sri Lanka. Cambridge University Press 2021-11 /pmc/articles/PMC8554894/ /pubmed/34747934 http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bji.2020.52 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Country Profile
Hapangama, Aruni
Kuruppuarachchi, K.A.L.A.
Maternal mental health services in Sri Lanka: challenges and solutions
title Maternal mental health services in Sri Lanka: challenges and solutions
title_full Maternal mental health services in Sri Lanka: challenges and solutions
title_fullStr Maternal mental health services in Sri Lanka: challenges and solutions
title_full_unstemmed Maternal mental health services in Sri Lanka: challenges and solutions
title_short Maternal mental health services in Sri Lanka: challenges and solutions
title_sort maternal mental health services in sri lanka: challenges and solutions
topic Country Profile
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8554894/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34747934
http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bji.2020.52
work_keys_str_mv AT hapangamaaruni maternalmentalhealthservicesinsrilankachallengesandsolutions
AT kuruppuarachchikala maternalmentalhealthservicesinsrilankachallengesandsolutions

Ejemplares similares