Strengthening primary care to address mental and neurological disorders

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ISBN	9789290224259 (pbk.)
Call Number	RA790.7.A785 S915 2013
Title	Strengthening primary care to address mental and neurological disorders / World Health Organization Regional Office for South-East Asia
Imprint	New Delhi : World Health Organization, 2013.
Physical	x, 65 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Summary	WHO estimates that even though millions of people suffer from mental, neurological, behavioural or substance use disorders, only a fraction of these patients, particularly those in rural and remote areas, are getting appropriate medical care. Evidence for the limited outreach of the existing model of care for mental and neurological disorders is the huge treatment gap (defined as the percentage of patients in need of, but not receiving appropriate medical care), which ranges from 87 to 95% for patients with epilepsy and 25 to 98% for patients with psychosis, based on studies carried out in the Region. The WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia has therefore been working with regional experts on a strategy to improve access to appropriate care for persons with mental and neurological disorders. The strategy calls for empowering the existing primary health-care delivery systems in Member States to identify and manage the most common and disabling of these disorders. Such care can be provided at the doorstep of the patient, thus making it readily available, accessible and acceptable. This model has been tested in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar, Thailand and Timor-Leste and found to be very effective in reducing the treatment gap to a fraction of what it was.
Subject	Primary health care--Asia, Southeastern
Subject	Mental health services--Asia, Southeastern
Subject	Delivery of health care--Asia, Southeastern
Subject	Nervous system--Diseases--Asia, Southeastern
Subject	Mental illness--Asia, Southeastern
Corporate Author	World Health Organization. Regional Office for South-East Asia
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245 00^aStrengthening primary care to address mental and neurological disorders /^cWorld Health Organization Regional Office for South-East Asia

260 ^aNew Delhi :^bWorld Health Organization,^c2013.

300 ^ax, 65 p. :^bcol. ill. ;^c25 cm.

504 ^aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 64-65).

520 ^aWHO estimates that even though millions of people suffer from mental, neurological, behavioural or substance use disorders, only a fraction of these patients, particularly those in rural and remote areas, are getting appropriate medical care. Evidence for the limited outreach of the existing model of care for mental and neurological disorders is the huge treatment gap (defined as the percentage of patients in need of, but not receiving appropriate medical care), which ranges from 87 to 95% for patients with epilepsy and 25 to 98% for patients with psychosis, based on studies carried out in the Region. The WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia has therefore been working with regional experts on a strategy to improve access to appropriate care for persons with mental and neurological disorders. The strategy calls for empowering the existing primary health-care delivery systems in Member States to identify and manage the most common and disabling of these disorders. Such care can be provided at the doorstep of the patient, thus making it readily available, accessible and acceptable. This model has been tested in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar, Thailand and Timor-Leste and found to be very effective in reducing the treatment gap to a fraction of what it was.

650 0^aPrimary health care^zAsia, Southeastern 0^aMental health services^zAsia, Southeastern 0^aDelivery of health care^zAsia, Southeastern 0^aNervous system^xDiseases^zAsia, Southeastern 0^aMental illness^zAsia, Southeastern

710 2 ^aWorld Health Organization. ^bRegional Office for South-East Asia

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856 40^3Content^uhttp://library.nhrc.or.th/ulib/document/Content/T13927.pdf

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955 ^a1 copy

999 ^aSaithip

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