Perceived challenges and opportunities arising from integration of mental health into primary care: A cross-sectional survey of primary health care workers in south-west Ethiopia

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 14, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Abera, Mubarek ^a   Tesfaye, Markos ^a   Belachew, Tefera ^a   Hanlon, Charlotte ^b,c  

^a JIMMA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Low income country; Mental disorders; Mental health; Mental health care; Primary health care; Scale up; Sub Saharan Africa; Task shifting

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INTEGRATED HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; INTERVIEW; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE, INTEGRATED; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE;

EID: 84897663413     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-14-113     Document Type: Article

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