Evidence-Based Guidelines for Mental, Neurological, and Substance Use Disorders in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Summary of WHO Recommendations

Dua, Tarun; Barbui, Corrado; Clark, Nicolas; Fleischmann, Alexandra; Poznyak, Vladimir; van Ommeren, Mark; Taghi Yasamy, M.; Luís Ayuso‐Mateos, José; L. Birbeck, Gretchen; Drummond, Colin; Freeman, Melvyn; Giannakopoulos, Pantéleimon; Levav, Itzhak; Obot, Isidore; Omigbodun, Olayinka; Patel, Vikram; R. Phillips, Michael; Prince, Martin; Rahimi‐Movaghar, Afarin; Rahman, Atıf; W. Sander, Josemir; B. Saunders, John; Servili, Chiara; Thara, R.; Unützer, Jürgen; Ventevogel, Peter; Vijayakumar, Lakshmi; Thornicroft, Graham; Saxena, Shekhar

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001122

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Evidence-Based Guidelines for Mental, Neurological, and Substance Use Disorders in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Summary of WHO Recommendations

Published in PLoS Medicine • Nov 15, 2011

Authors:

Tarun Dua

Corrado Barbui

Nicolas Clark

Abstract

Why Evidence-Based Guidelines Are Urgently Needed Mental, neurological, and substance use (MNS) disorders are highly prevalent and are responsible for 14% of the global burden of disease expressed in disabilityadjusted life years (DALYs) The resources that have been provided in countries to tackle t...

Subject

Low and middle income countries

Psychiatry

Medicine

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