The first article in a landmark series to help health care workers and providers, donors, and decision makers understand the importance of including mental health care in global health programs is being published in this week’s PLOS Medicine.
Giving a global perspective on integrating mental health into health services around the world, the series focuses on mental, neurological, and substance use (MNS) disorders. Although these disorders account for an increasing burden of disease, affected people often lack access to mental health care in high-, middle-, and low-income countries.
In this first introductory article, the authors explain the need for integration. They say: “The evidence demonstrating that there truly is ”no health without mental health” continues to grow, and the links between HIV and depression, cardiovascular disease and anxiety disorders, diabetes and depression—as well as other conditions—suggest that the best outcomes for these disorders require care that attends to all of them.”
Read the full article:
Grand Challenges in Global Mental Health: Integration in Research, Policy, and Practice
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