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| Title |
Mental health policy in Kenya -an integrated approach to scaling up equitable care for poor populations
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|---|---|
| Published in |
International Journal of Mental Health Systems, June 2010
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| DOI | 10.1186/1752-4458-4-19 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
David Kiima, Rachel Jenkins |
| Abstract |
Although most donor and development agency attention is focussed on communicable diseases in Kenya, the importance of non-communicable diseases including mental health and mental illness is increasingly apparent, both in their own right and because of their influence on health, education and social goals. Mental illness is common but the specialist service is extremely sparse and primary care is struggling to cope with major health demands. Non health sectors e.g. education, prisons, police, community development, gender and children, regional administration and local government have significant concerns about mental health, but general health programmes have been surprisingly slow to appreciate the significance of mental health for physical health targets. Despite a people centred post colonial health delivery system, poverty and global social changes have seriously undermined equity. This project sought to meet these challenges, aiming to introduce sustainable mental health policy and implementation across the country, within the context of extremely scarce resources. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Comoros | 1 | 50% |
| Kenya | 1 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 310 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 2 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | <1% |
| Malaysia | 1 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| Sierra Leone | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 302 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 67 | 22% |
| Researcher | 53 | 17% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 32 | 10% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 22 | 7% |
| Student > Bachelor | 20 | 6% |
| Other | 50 | 16% |
| Unknown | 66 | 21% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 70 | 23% |
| Social Sciences | 46 | 15% |
| Psychology | 36 | 12% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 34 | 11% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 9 | 3% |
| Other | 46 | 15% |
| Unknown | 69 | 22% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 14 August 2018.
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#4,100,430
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#221
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#17,121
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#2
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