WHO Mental Health Gap Action Programme (mhGAP) Intervention Guide: A systematic review of evidence from low and middleincome countries

Evidence-Based Mental Health

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 29-33

  Keynejad, Roxanne C ^a   Dua, Tarun ^b   Barbui, Corrado ^c   Thornicroft, Graham ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CINAHL; ECONOMIC MODEL; EMBASE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MEDLINE; MENTAL HEALTH; META ANALYSIS; MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PSYCINFO; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RATING SCALE; REVIEW; SCOPUS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRAINING; WEB OF SCIENCE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EDUCATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; STANDARDS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 85053453418     PISSN: 13620347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/eb-2017-102750     Document Type: Review

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