Open AccessPartnership for mental health development in Sub-Saharan Africa (PaM-D): a collaborative initiative for research and capacity building
Author(s) -
Oye Gureje,
Soraya Seedat,
Lola Kola,
John Appiah-Poku,
Caleb Othieno,
Brian Harris,
LeShawndra N. Price,
Olatunde Ayinde,
Oluyomi Esan
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
epidemiology and psychiatric sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.718
H-Index - 48
eISSN - 2045-7979
pISSN - 2045-7960
DOI - 10.1017/s2045796018000707
Subject(s) - bespoke , general partnership , capacity building , mental health , global mental health , vulnerability (computing) , medicine , essential medicines , economic growth , public health , political science , public relations , nursing , psychiatry , computer security , computer science , law , economics
AimsIn low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) in general and sub-Sahara African (SSA) countries in particular, there is both a large treatment gap for mental disorders and a relative paucity of empirical evidence about how to fill this gap. This is more so for severe mental disorders, such as psychosis, which impose an additional vulnerability for human rights abuse on its sufferers. A major factor for the lack of evidence is the few numbers of active mental health (MH) researchers on the continent and the distance between the little evidence generated and the policy-making process.