Community Action Package in Iran's Comprehensive Mental and Social Health Services (the SERAJ Program)

Psychiatric Social Work and Effective Strategies to Reduce the Care Gap in Mental Health Services A Comprehensive, Cross-Sectoral, and Community-Oriented Look

Introduction: Despite the significant prevalence of psychiatric disorders and the high global burden of these, a large proportion of people with severe psychiatric disorders do not receive the services they need, which is called the care gap, and one of the goals of world health organizations is to reduce this gap. The purpose of this study is to review the most important global and regional st...

Community mental health services.

A. Credentialing and re-credentialing shall be conducted and documented for at least the following health care professionals employed or individually contracted by GCCMH through its Human Resources Department: 1. Physicians (M.D.s or D.O.s), including board certification or board eligibility, if applicable 2. Physician's Assistants Certified 3. Psychologists (Licensed, Limited License, or Tempo...

Jamaica: Community Mental Health Services

Mental health services in Jamaica are in transition. Jamaica’s Ministry of Health is trying to develop a better and more comprehensive community mental health system by building on the success of pioneer community services while scaling down Bellevue, the country’s biggest and best known psychiatric hospital. Mental health officers (MHOs) are at the heart of the transformation; increasing the n...

Comprehensive mental health action plan 2013-2020.

Twenty years ago, a book was published entitled World mental health: problems and priorities in low-income countries (1). A few years later in 2001, the World Health Organization (WHO) devoted its World Health Report to Mental health: new understanding, new hope (2), and the Institute of Medicine in the United States of America brought out Neurological, psychiatric, and developmental disorders:...

Running head: COMPREHENSIVE MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES