Alan J. Flisher

TL;DR: This work proposes a population-based, youth focused model, explicitly integrating mental health with other youth health and welfare expertise, and challenges to addressing mental- health needs include the shortage of mental-health professionals, the fairly low capacity and motivation of non-specialist health workers, and the stigma associated with mental disorder.

TL;DR: The authors proposed a population-based, youth focused model, explicitly integrating mental health with other youth health and welfare expertise to address young people's mental-health needs, which is crucial if they are to fulfil their potential and contribute fully to the development of their communities.

TL;DR: The launching of a national initiative to establish sites of service excellence in urban and rural settings throughout South Africa to trial, assess, and implement integrated care interventions for chronic infectious and non-communicable diseases is urged.

TL;DR: The debate is attempted to shift the debate from questions about whether poverty is associated with CMD in LMIC, to questions about which particular dimensions of poverty carry the strongest (or weakest) association.

TL;DR: It is argued that a basic, evidence-based package of services for core mental disorders should be scaled up, and that protection of the human rights of people with mental disorders and their families should be strengthened.