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Beyond the crisis: building back better mental health care in 10 emergency-affected areas using a longer-term perspective

Overview of attention for article published in International Journal of Mental Health Systems, March 2015
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Title
Beyond the crisis: building back better mental health care in 10 emergency-affected areas using a longer-term perspective
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International Journal of Mental Health Systems, March 2015
DOI 10.1186/s13033-015-0007-9
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JoAnne E Epping-Jordan, Mark van Ommeren, Hazem Nayef Ashour, Albert Maramis, Anita Marini, Andrew Mohanraj, Aqila Noori, Humayun Rizwan, Khalid Saeed, Derrick Silove, T Suveendran, Liliana Urbina, Peter Ventevogel, Shekhar Saxena

Abstract

Major gaps remain - especially in low- and middle-income countries - in the realization of comprehensive, community-based mental health care. One potentially important yet overlooked opportunity for accelerating mental health reform lies within emergency situations, such as armed conflicts or natural disasters. Despite their adverse impacts on affected populations' mental health and well being, emergencies also draw attention and resources to these issues and provide openings for mental health service development. Cases were considered if they represented a low- or middle-income country or territory affected by an emergency, were initiated between 2000 and 2010, succeeded in making changes to the mental health system, and were able to be documented by an expert involved directly with the case. Based on these criteria, 10 case examples from diverse emergency-affected settings were included: Afghanistan, Burundi, Indonesia (Aceh Province), Iraq, Jordan, Kosovo, occupied Palestinian territory, Somalia, Sri Lanka, and Timor-Leste. These cases demonstrate generally that emergency contexts can be tapped to make substantial and sustainable improvements in mental health systems. From these experiences, 10 common lessons learnt were identified on how to make this happen. These lessons include the importance of adopting a longer-term perspective for mental health reform from the outset, and focusing on system-wide reform that addresses both new-onset and pre-existing mental disorders. Global progress in mental health care would happen more quickly if, in every crisis, strategic efforts were made to convert short-term interest in mental health problems into momentum for mental health reform.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Malaysia 2 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Uganda 1 <1%
Unknown 228 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 42 18%
Lecturer 26 11%
Researcher 26 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 16 7%
Student > Bachelor 16 7%
Other 45 19%
Unknown 61 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 44 19%
Medicine and Dentistry 35 15%
Psychology 30 13%
Social Sciences 21 9%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 2%
Other 25 11%
Unknown 73 31%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. 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 28 February 2024.
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#4,439,018
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#262
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#51,000
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Outputs of similar age from International Journal of Mental Health Systems
#3
of 14 outputs
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