Acceptability and feasibility of using non-specialist health workers to deliver mental health care: Stakeholder perceptions from the PRIME district sites in Ethiopia, India, Nepal, South Africa, and Uganda

Mendenhall, Emily; J De Silva, Mary; Hanlon, Charlotte; Petersen, Inge; Shidhaye, Rahul; J. D. Jordans, Mark; P. Luitel, Nagendra; Ssebunnya, Joshua; Fekadu, Abebaw; Patel, Vikram; Tomlinson, Mark; Lund, Crick

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.07.057

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Acceptability and feasibility of using non-specialist health workers to deliver mental health care: Stakeholder perceptions from the PRIME district sites in Ethiopia, India, Nepal, South Africa, and Uganda

Published in Social Science & Medicine • Jul 29, 2014

Authors:

Emily Mendenhall

Mary J De Silva

Charlotte Hanlon

Abstract

Three-quarters of the global mental health burden exists in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), yet the lack of mental health services in resource-poor settings is striking. Task-sharing (also, task-shifting), where mental health care is provided by non-specialists, has been proposed to improv...

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Mental health

Medicine

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