Providing sustainable mental and neurological health care in Ghana and Kenya : workshop summary

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Providing sustainable mental and neurological health care in Ghana and Kenya : workshop summary

Title remainder

workshop summary

Statement of responsibility

Sheena Posey Norris, Erin Hammers Forstag, and Bruce M. Altevogt, rapporteurs ; Forum on Neuroscience and Nervous System Disorders, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Board on Global Health, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine

Creator

• Norris, Sheena M. Posey

Contributor

• Providing Sustainable Mental Health Care in Kenya (Workshop), 2015
• Institute of Medicine (U.S.), Forum on Neuroscience and Nervous System Disorders
• Altevogt, Bruce M.
• Forstag, Erin Hammers
• Providing Sustainable Mental Health Care in Ghana (Workshop), 2015

Issuing body

• Institute of Medicine (U.S.), Forum on Neuroscience and Nervous System Disorders

Subject

• Delivery of Health Care
• Electronic books
• Ghana
• Ghana -- epidemiology
• Health Services Needs and Demand
• Kenya
• Kenya -- epidemiology
• Mental Disorders -- epidemiology
• Mental Health Services
• Mental health services
• Mental health services -- Ghana
• Mental health services -- Kenya
• Nervous System Diseases -- epidemiology
• Congress
• Neurology -- Ghana
• Neurology -- Kenya
• POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy | Social Security
• POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy | Social Services & Welfare
• Substance-Related Disorders -- epidemiology
• Neurology

Genre

• Electronic books
• Congress

Language

eng

Summary

"Mental, neurological, and substance use (MNS) disorders have a substantial impact on global health and well-being. Disorders such as depression, alcohol abuse, and schizophrenia constitute about 13 percent of the total burden of disease. Worldwide, MNS disorders are the leading cause of disability, and the 10th leading cause of death. Despite this high burden, there is a significant shortage of resources available to prevent, diagnose, and treat MNS disorders. Approximately four out of five people with serious MNS disorders living in low- and middle-income countries do not receive needed health services. This treatment gap is particularly high in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Challenges to MNS care in SSA countries include a lack of trained mental health professionals, few mental health facilities, and low prioritization for MNS disorders in budget allocations. African countries, on average, have one psychiatrist for every 2 million people, whereas European countries have one psychiatrist per 12,000 people. Expanding on previous efforts to address the development and improvement of sustainable mental health systems in SSA, the Institute of Medicine convened this 2015 workshop series, bringing together key stakeholders to examine country-specific opportunities to improve the health care infrastructure in order to better prevent, diagnose, and treat MNS disorders. Providing Sustainable Mental and Neurological Health Care in Ghana and Kenya summarizes the presentations and discussions from these workshops"--Publisher's description

Cataloging source

NLM

Dewey number

362.20941

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

LC call number

RA790.7.G4

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

NLM call number

• 2016 E-467
• WM 30.HG6

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