TY - JOUR
KW - Comprehensive Health Care/standards
KW - Delivery of Health Care, Integrated/organization & administration
KW - Ghana
KW - Health Care Rationing
KW - Health Plan Implementation/organization & administration
KW - Health Planning Guidelines
KW - Health Resources/supply & distribution/utilization
KW - Humans
KW - Mental Health Services/organization & administration
KW - Needs Assessment
KW - Pharmaceutical Services/organization & administration
KW - Primary Health Care/organization & administration
KW - Program Evaluation
KW - South Africa
KW - Uganda
KW - World Health
AU - A. Bhana
AU - I. Petersen
AU - K. L. Baillie
AU - A. J. Flisher
AU - Consortium The Mhapp Research Programme
A1 - 
AB - Integrating mental health into primary health care is widely promoted for a host of reasons, chief among which is providing a more comprehensive health care service. However, only a few countries have adequate mental health resources to undertake the integration of mental health into primary health care in a uniform manner, with wide variations among countries. This paper examines the extent to which two low-income countries (Ghana and Uganda) and one middle-income country (South Africa) are managing the integration of mental health into primary health care using the recommendations of the WHO World Health Report, 2001. Primary and secondary data sources from a situational analysis of mental health services in the three countries were analysed. The findings indicate that significant challenges remain in integrating mental health care into primary health care. Poor or uneven implementation of policy, inadequate access to essential drugs and lack of mental health specialists are some of the reasons advanced. Aside from better human resource planning for mental health, integration may be advanced by the development of packages of care which adopt a task-shifting approach suited to a country's needs.
BT - International review of psychiatry (Abingdon, England)
C5 - General Literature
CP - 6
CY - England
DO - 10.3109/09540261.2010.536152
IS - 6
JF - International review of psychiatry (Abingdon, England)
N2 - Integrating mental health into primary health care is widely promoted for a host of reasons, chief among which is providing a more comprehensive health care service. However, only a few countries have adequate mental health resources to undertake the integration of mental health into primary health care in a uniform manner, with wide variations among countries. This paper examines the extent to which two low-income countries (Ghana and Uganda) and one middle-income country (South Africa) are managing the integration of mental health into primary health care using the recommendations of the WHO World Health Report, 2001. Primary and secondary data sources from a situational analysis of mental health services in the three countries were analysed. The findings indicate that significant challenges remain in integrating mental health care into primary health care. Poor or uneven implementation of policy, inadequate access to essential drugs and lack of mental health specialists are some of the reasons advanced. Aside from better human resource planning for mental health, integration may be advanced by the development of packages of care which adopt a task-shifting approach suited to a country's needs.
PP - England
PY - 2010
SN - 1369-1627; 0954-0261
SP - 599
EP - 610
EP - 
T1 - Implementing the World Health Report 2001 recommendations for integrating mental health into primary health care: a situation analysis of three African countries: Ghana, South Africa and Uganda
T2 - International review of psychiatry (Abingdon, England)
TI - Implementing the World Health Report 2001 recommendations for integrating mental health into primary health care: a situation analysis of three African countries: Ghana, South Africa and Uganda
U1 - General Literature
U2 - 21226648
U3 - 10.3109/09540261.2010.536152
VL - 22
VO - 1369-1627; 0954-0261
Y1 - 2010
ER -