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Innovations in mental health training – the Kintampo Project, Ghana

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Mark Roberts
Affiliation:
Kintampo Project Lead (UK), Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Emmanuel Teye Adjase
Affiliation:
Kintampo Project Lead (Ghana), Director of the Kintampo Rural Health Training School
Jim Crabb
Affiliation:
Institute of Health & Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, UK, email enquiries@thekintampotrust.org
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Abstract

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The landscape of some low- and middle-income countries is sadly all too often littered with the remains of well intentioned health development projects that have failed. The Kintampo Project in Ghana is an education intervention that is set to achieve the most elusive of outcomes in development work, namely genuine sustainability. This article focuses on the challenges faced by the project and the factors that have allowed it to reach its targets.

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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists 2014

References

Roberts, M. & Adjase, E. (2013) Summary overview of the Kintampo Project Ghana–Hampshire mental health link. Available at http://www.thekintampoproject.org/storage/Kintampo%20Project%20Illustrated%20project%20plan.pdf (accessed 25 January 2014).Google Scholar
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