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ArticleEpidemiology and psychiatric sciences2020

Promotion, prevention and treatment interventions for mental health in low- and middle-income countries through a task-shifting approach.

Marianna Purgato, Eleonora Uphoff, Rakesh Singh, Ambika Thapa Pachya, Jibril Abdulmalik, Nadja van Ginneken

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Article in Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 45 papers, 10 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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45 citing papers in PubMed, 10 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 103 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 5 institutions in 4 countries.

Marianna PurgatoWHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Mental Health and Service Evaluation, Department of Neuroscience, Biomedicine and Movement Sciences, Section of Psychiatry, University of Verona, Verona, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3783-8195
Eleonora UphoffCochrane Common Mental Disorders, Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, University of York, York, UK.
Rakesh SinghDepartment of Community Health Sciences, Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Lalitpur, Nepal.
Ambika Thapa PachyaDepartment of Community Health Sciences, Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Lalitpur, Nepal.
Jibril AbdulmalikDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9486-5408
Nadja van GinnekenDepartment of Primary Care and Mental Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
Patan Academy of Health Sciences · NPUniversity of Ibadan · NGUniversity of Liverpool · GBUniversity of Verona · ITUniversity of York · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recently, mental health and ill health have been reframed to be seen as a continuum from health to ill health, through the stages of being asymptomatic 'at risk', to experiencing 'mental distress', 'sub-syndromal symptoms' and finally 'mental disorders'. This new conceptualisation emphasised the importance of mental health promotion and prevention interventions, aimed at reducing the likelihood of future disorders with the general population or with people who are identified as being at risk of a disorder. This concept generated discussion on the distinction between prevention and treatment interventions, especially for those mental health conditions which lie between psychological distress and a formal psychiatric diagnosis. The present editorial aims to clarify the definition of promotion, prevention and treatment interventions delivered through a task-shifting approach according to a global mental health perspective.

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Antidepressive AgentsFemaleHumansIncomeMaleMental DisordersMental Health ServicesPreventive Health ServicesPsychotherapy, BriefAntidepressive AgentsLow- and middle-income countriespreventionprimary mental health carepromotionpublic mental healthtask-shiftingtreatment

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PMID32744223
PMCPMC7458538
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