Integrating community mental health within primary care in southern Malawi: A pilot educational intervention to enhance the role of health surveillance assistants

International Journal of Social Psychiatry

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 155-161

  Wright, Jerome ^a   Common, Stephanie ^b   Kauye, Felix ^c   Chiwandira, Chikayiko ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b Woodside Resource Centre   (United Kingdom)

^c Zomba Mental Hospital   (Malawi)

Author keywords

Africa; Community mental health care; Malawi; mental health promotion; village health worker

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMMUNITY CARE; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CARE; CULTURAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALAWI; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH PROMOTION; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PILOT STUDY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL POPULATION; VILLAGE HEALTH WORKER; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

AFRICA; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CARE; MALAWI; MENTAL HEALTH PROMOTION; VILLAGE HEALTH WORKER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; CULTURAL COMPETENCY; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MALAWI; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL POPULATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84894462838     PISSN: 00207640     EISSN: 17412854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0020764012471924     Document Type: Article

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