Evidence-based practices in mental health: Distant dream or emerging reality?

Evidence-based Psychiatry : a Distant Dream?

Evidence Based Herbal Medicine and Mental Health

Many cultures have developed folk herbal remedies for various symptoms of mental illness. An evidence base now is being developed for some of these “alternative” herbal remedies. There has been an increase in the number and proportion of clinical trials of complementary medicine, which suggests a trend toward an evidence-based approach. This review presents the scientific information reg...

Reducing health inequities in a generation: a dream or reality?

a London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London, WC1E 7HT, England. b School of Public Health, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India. Correspondence to Shankar Prinja (e-mail: [email protected]). Inequalities in health are an indicator of distributional differences in the health status of populations. Low-income countries, whic...

Universal health coverage in Rwanda: dream or reality

INTRODUCTION Universal Health Coverage (UHC) has been a global concern for a long time and even more nowadays. While a number of publications are almost unanimous that Rwanda is not far from UHC, very few have focused on its financial sustainability and on its extreme external financial dependency. The objectives of this study are: (i) To assess Rwanda UHC based mainly on Community-Based Health...

Evidence-based practices in geriatric mental health care.

The past decade has seen dramatic growth in research on treatments for the psychiatric problems of older adults. An emerging evidence base supports the efficacy of geriatric mental health interventions. The authors provide an overview of the evidence base for clinical practice. They identified three sources of evidence-evidence-based reviews, meta-analyses, and expert consensus statements-on es...