Grand challenges: integrating mental health services into priority health care platforms.
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Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 23737736.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001448 and PMC identifier 3666874.
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Abstract
In the last article of a five-part series providing a global perspective on integrating mental health, Vikram Patel and colleagues discuss the competencies, operational innovation, and packages of care needed, and argue that integration will complement primary care system strengthening. <i>Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary</i>
Medical subject headings
- Delivery of Health Care, Integrated
- Health Policy
- Mental Disorders
- Mental Health
- Mental Health Services
- Policy Making