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John Mahoney
Researcher at World Health Organization
Publications - 4
Citations - 925
John Mahoney is an academic researcher from World Health Organization. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mental health & Health care. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 3 publications receiving 847 citations.
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Barriers to improvement of mental health services in low-income and middle-income countries
Benedetto Saraceno,Mark van Ommeren,Rajaie Batniji,Alex S. Cohen,Oye Gureje,John Mahoney,Devi Sridhar,Chris Underhill +7 more
TL;DR: Barriers to progress in improvement of mental health services can be overcome by generation of political will for the organisation of accessible and humane mental health care, a qualitative survey of international mental health experts and leaders suggests.
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Responding to the mental health and psychosocial needs of the people of Sri Lanka in disasters
TL;DR: The early response and community level work is described as well as how this has led to a new level of disaster preparedness and a new national mental health policy and proposals for new mental health legislation.
Global Mental Health 5 Barriers to improvement of mental health services in low-income and middle-income countries
Benedetto Saraceno,Mark van Ommeren,Rajaie Batniji,Alex Cohen,Oye Gureje,John Mahoney,Devi Sridhar,Chris Underhill,Sri Lanka +8 more
TL;DR: Barriers to progress in improvement of mental health services can be overcome by generation of political will for the organisation of accessible and humane mental health care, according to a qualitative survey of international mental health experts and leaders.
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Expanding mental health services in low- and middle-income countries: A task-shifting framework for delivery of comprehensive, collaborative, and community-based care
Paul Bolton,Joyce West,Claire Whitney,Mark J. D. Jordans,Judith K. Bass,Graham Thornicroft,Laura L. Murray,Leslie Snider,Julian Eaton,Pamela Y. Collins,Peter Ventevogel,Stephanie L. Smith,Dan J. Stein,Inge Petersen,Derrick Silove,Victor Ugo,John Mahoney,Rabih El Chammay,Carmen Contreras,Eddy Eustache,Phiona Koyiet,Esubalew Haile Wondimu,Nawaraj Upadhaya,Giuseppe Raviola +23 more
TL;DR: In this paper , a framework for comprehensive, collaborative, and community-based care (C4) for accessible mental health services in low-resource settings is proposed, which is based on task-shifting of services to non-specialized workers.