| Author | : World Health Organization. Mental Health Gap Action Programme |
| File Size | : 52,5 Mb |
| Publisher | : Unknown |
| Language | : English |
| Release Date | : 27 April 2024 |
| ISBN | : 9241548061 |
| Pages | : 83 pages |
Mental Health Gap Action Programme Intervention Guide by World Health Organization. Mental Health Gap Action Programme Book PDF Summary
About four out of five people in low- and middle-income countries who need services for mental, neurological and substance-use conditions do not receive them. Even when available, the interventions often are neither evidence-based nor of high quality. WHO recently launched the mental health Gap Action Programme (mhGAP) for low- and middle-income countries with the objective of scaling up care for mental, neurological and substance-use disorders. This mhGAP Intervention Guide has been developed to facilitate mhGAP-related delivery of evidence-based interventions in non-specialised health-care settings. The Intervention Guide is brief so as to facilitate interventions by busy non-specialists in low- and middle-income countries. It describes in detail what to do but does not go into descriptions of how to do. It is important that the non-specialist health-care providers are trained in using the mhGAP Intervention Guide in assessing and managing people with mental, neurological and substance-use disorders.