Improving access to mental health care and psychosocial support within a fragile context: a case study from Afghanistan.
case_series · Level IV
Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 22666183.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001225 and PMC identifier 3362640.
- Licence recorded as CC BY.
- The licence permits redistribution, so the abstract is shown in full and the full text is available from the publisher.
Abstract
As one article in a series on Global Mental Health Practice, Peter Ventevogel and colleagues provide a case study of their efforts to integrate brief, practice-oriented mental health training into the Afghanistan health care system at a time when the system was being rebuilt from scratch.
Medical subject headings
- Delivery of Health Care
- Health Services Accessibility
- Mental Health
- Mental Health Services
- Psychotherapy