Improving Ghana's mental healthcare through task-shifting- psychiatrists and health policy directors perceptions about government's commitment and the role of community mental health workers

Globalization and Health

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Agyapong, Vincent Israel Opoku ^a,b,c   Farren, Conor ^c   McAuliffe, Eilish ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ghana)

^c TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Community mental health workers; Health policy directors; Psychiatrists; Task shifting

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH WORKER; MENTAL HEALTH; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; SOCIAL WORK; STATE ROLE; TRAINING;

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CLINICAL SUPERVISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GHANA; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MEDICAL DIRECTOR; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRIST; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SHIFT WORKER; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; THEMATIC ANALYSIS; ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; MANPOWER; PERCEPTION; PSYCHIATRY; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STANDARDS; TRENDS;

GHANA;

ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; GHANA; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; PERCEPTION; PSYCHIATRY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

EID: 84989298169     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17448603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12992-016-0199-z     Document Type: Article

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