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

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 118, Issue C, 2014, Pages 33-42

  Mendenhall, Emily ^a,b   De Silva, Mary J ^a   Hanlon, Charlotte ^c,d   Petersen, Inge ^e   Shidhaye, Rahul ^f   Jordans, Mark ^c,g   Luitel, Nagendra ^h   Ssebunnya, Joshua ⁱ   Fekadu, Abebaw ^c,d   Patel, Vikram ^a,f,j   Tomlinson, Mark ^k,l   Lund, Crick ^k  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^f PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION OF INDIA   (India)

^g Department of Research and Development   (Netherlands)

^h TPO Nepal   (Nepal)

ⁱ MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^j Sangath   (India)

^k UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^l STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

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Author keywords

Acceptability; Feasibility; Global mental health; Low and middle income countries; Mental health services; Task sharing; Task shifting

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH WORKER; LOW INCOME POPULATION; MENTAL HEALTH; SERVICE PROVISION; STAKEHOLDER;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL SUPERVISION; ETHIOPIA; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INDIA; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PROGRAM ACCEPTABILITY; PROGRAM FEASIBILITY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SOUTH AFRICA; UGANDA; WORKMAN COMPENSATION; AFRICA; ASIA; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; IN SERVICE TRAINING; INTERVIEW; MANPOWER; MENTAL DISORDERS; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE;

ETHIOPIA; INDIA; NEPAL; SOUTH AFRICA; UGANDA;

AFRICA; ASIA, WESTERN; COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INSERVICE TRAINING; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

EID: 84920410302     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.07.057     Document Type: Article

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