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Human resources for mental health – challenges and opportunities in developing countries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

R. Srinivasa Murthy
R. Srinivasa Murthy*
Affiliation:
National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, India, email: murthy_srinivasar@yahoo.co.in
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Human resources for mental health are a challenge in all countries. In countries rich and poor, there is a big gap between the need for mental health services and the availability of those services. In an unusual way, the barriers to mental healthcare appear to be universal, which is not true of non-psychiatric healthcare. Nonetheless, the World Health Report 2001 and the World Health Organization's Atlas project have recorded extremely low levels of service in most developing countries (World Health Organization, 2001a,b). The recruitment of consultant psychiatrists from low- and middle-income countries, discussed in the October 2004 issue of International Psychiatry (Ndetei et al, 2004; Jenkins, 2004), raises a number of challenges for both developing and developed countries.

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Thematic paper – International recruitment
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International Psychiatry , Volume 2 , Issue 7 , January 2005 , pp. 5 - 7
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