Open AccessTreating depression where there are no mental health professionals
Author(s) -
Vikram Patel,
Fiona Fleck
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
bulletin of the world health organization
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.459
H-Index - 168
eISSN - 1564-0604
pISSN - 0042-9686
DOI - 10.2471/blt.17.030317
Subject(s) - mental health , depression (economics) , psychiatry , health professionals , medicine , psychology , health care , political science , law , economics , macroeconomics
Many people with depression and other mental health problems can be treated successfully by community health workers, but so far no country has scaled up this approach. Vikram Patel talks to Fiona Fleck.
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