Beyond the crisis: building back better mental health care in 10 emergency-affected areas using a longer-term perspective

Beyond the crisis: building back better mental health care in 10 emergency-affected areas using a longer-term perspective

BACKGROUND Major gaps remain - especially in low- and middle-income countries - in the realization of comprehensive, community-based mental health care. One potentially important yet overlooked opportunity for accelerating mental health reform lies within emergency situations, such as armed conflicts or natural disasters. Despite their adverse impacts on affected populations' mental health and ...

Addressing the crisis in US health care: moving beyond denial.

he US healthcare system is in a crisis and it is finally acknowledging this reality. Like other nations around the world, US health care faces mounting problems including rising costs, challenges to access to services, and persistently wide variations in safety and quality. Following the failure of the first Clinton Administration in the early 1990s to reform the US healthcare system through a ...

Help, care and support during a mental health crisis.

Emeritus professor Alan Glasper, from the University of Southampton, discusses the recently published Care Quality Commission (CQC) report Right here, right now, which documents people's experiences of help, care and support during a mental health crisis.

Health Workforce related challenges for Emergency Obstetric Care at peripheral health facilities: Providers’ Perspective

Abstract Introduction: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of India is constantly Functioning to provide optimum health care to achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by updating health infrastructure. Objective:  To study the readiness and challenges of peripheral health facilities regarding skilled health workforce to provide Emergency Obstetric Care (EmOC). Materials and Me...

Perspective : Public - Sector Mental Health Care : New