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Mental health in Nigeria: A Neglected issue in Public Health
In Nigeria, the disparity between available healthcare services and need for mental health services is palpable. Although, the country has made significant advances on challenging public health problems, health-related policy development and legislation in trying to achieve health for all policy, th...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9461161/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36101616 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.puhip.2021.100166 |
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author | Wada, Yusuf Hassan Rajwani, Linu Anyam, Emmanuel Karikari, Evelyn Njikizana, Mitchelle Srour, Lilian Khalid, Garba M. |
author_facet | Wada, Yusuf Hassan Rajwani, Linu Anyam, Emmanuel Karikari, Evelyn Njikizana, Mitchelle Srour, Lilian Khalid, Garba M. |
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description | In Nigeria, the disparity between available healthcare services and need for mental health services is palpable. Although, the country has made significant advances on challenging public health problems, health-related policy development and legislation in trying to achieve health for all policy, there have been challenges with regards to mental health services including that of policy development and legislation, financing, research, training and integration of mental health care into primary health care. We consulted relevant publications, official document, policy statement, blueprints, working plans of the relevant organizations responsible for mental care and services locally and globally. We identify and highlight challenges faced in mental health services implementation and provide recommendations as way forward and call for urgent action to government, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), policy makers and legislatives which are urgently needed to reform and implement them for a better, accessible, and affordable mental health services for the mental well-being of the populace. |
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spelling | pubmed-94611612022-09-12 Mental health in Nigeria: A Neglected issue in Public Health Wada, Yusuf Hassan Rajwani, Linu Anyam, Emmanuel Karikari, Evelyn Njikizana, Mitchelle Srour, Lilian Khalid, Garba M. Public Health Pract (Oxf) Commentary In Nigeria, the disparity between available healthcare services and need for mental health services is palpable. Although, the country has made significant advances on challenging public health problems, health-related policy development and legislation in trying to achieve health for all policy, there have been challenges with regards to mental health services including that of policy development and legislation, financing, research, training and integration of mental health care into primary health care. We consulted relevant publications, official document, policy statement, blueprints, working plans of the relevant organizations responsible for mental care and services locally and globally. We identify and highlight challenges faced in mental health services implementation and provide recommendations as way forward and call for urgent action to government, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), policy makers and legislatives which are urgently needed to reform and implement them for a better, accessible, and affordable mental health services for the mental well-being of the populace. Elsevier 2021-07-29 /pmc/articles/PMC9461161/ /pubmed/36101616 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.puhip.2021.100166 Text en © 2021 Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of The Royal Society for Public Health. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Commentary Wada, Yusuf Hassan Rajwani, Linu Anyam, Emmanuel Karikari, Evelyn Njikizana, Mitchelle Srour, Lilian Khalid, Garba M. Mental health in Nigeria: A Neglected issue in Public Health |
title | Mental health in Nigeria: A Neglected issue in Public Health |
title_full | Mental health in Nigeria: A Neglected issue in Public Health |
title_fullStr | Mental health in Nigeria: A Neglected issue in Public Health |
title_full_unstemmed | Mental health in Nigeria: A Neglected issue in Public Health |
title_short | Mental health in Nigeria: A Neglected issue in Public Health |
title_sort | mental health in nigeria: a neglected issue in public health |
topic | Commentary |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9461161/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36101616 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.puhip.2021.100166 |
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