The acceptability and feasibility of task-sharing for mental healthcare in low and middle income countries: a systematic review

P Padmanathan, MJ De Silva - Social science & medicine, 2013 - Elsevier
Task-sharing has frequently been proposed as a strategy to overcome human resource
shortages in order to scale up mental health care. Although evidence suggests this …

Integrated care for people with long-term mental and physical health conditions in low-income and middle-income countries

G Thornicroft, S Ahuja, S Barber, D Chisholm… - The Lancet …, 2019 - thelancet.com
Integrated care is defined as health services that are managed and delivered such that
people receive a continuum of health promotion, disease prevention, diagnosis, treatment …

[HTML][HTML] Acceptability and feasibility of using non-specialist health workers to deliver mental health care: stakeholder perceptions from the PRIME district sites in …

E Mendenhall, MJ De Silva, C Hanlon, I Petersen… - Social science & …, 2014 - Elsevier
Three-quarters of the global mental health burden exists in low-and middle-income
countries (LMICs), yet the lack of mental health services in resource-poor settings is striking …

Barriers and facilitators of mental health programmes in primary care in low-income and middle-income countries

GM Esponda, S Hartman, O Qureshi, E Sadler… - The Lancet …, 2020 - thelancet.com
Integration of services into primary health care for people with common mental disorders is
considered a key strategy to improve access to mental health care in low-income and middle …

Depression and associated factors in older adults in South Africa

K Peltzer, N Phaswana-Mafuya - Global health action, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Background and objective: Late-life depression is an important public health problem
because of its devastating consequences. The study aims to investigate the prevalence and …

[PDF][PDF] Economic evaluation of a task-shifting intervention for common mental disorders in India

C Buttorff, RS Hock, HA Weiss, S Naik… - Bulletin of the World …, 2012 - SciELO Public Health
OBJECTIVE: To carry out an economic evaluation of a task-shifting intervention for the
treatment of depressive and anxiety disorders in primary-care settings in Goa, India …

The experiences of lay health workers trained in task-shifting psychological interventions: a qualitative systematic review

U Shahmalak, A Blakemore, MW Waheed… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Springer
Introduction The prevalence of common mental disorders, such as depression and anxiety,
is high and the demand for psychological interventions and talking therapies is increasing …

Lay health worker involvement in evidence-based treatment delivery: A conceptual model to address disparities in care

ML Barnett, AS Lau, J Miranda - Annual review of clinical …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Mobilizing lay health workers (LHWs) to deliver evidence-based treatments (EBTs) is a
workforce strategy to address mental health disparities in underserved communities. LHWs …

Collaborative care approaches for people with severe mental illness

S Reilly, C Hobson-Merrett, B Gibbons… - Cochrane Database …, 2024 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Collaborative care for severe mental illness (SMI) is a community‐based
intervention that promotes interdisciplinary working across primary and secondary care …

Promoting wellbeing and improving access to mental health care through community champions in rural India: the Atmiyata intervention approach

L Shields-Zeeman, S Pathare, BH Walters… - International journal of …, 2017 - Springer
Background There are limited accounts of community-based interventions for reducing
distress or providing support for people with common mental disorders (CMDs) in low and …