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Scale up of services for mental health in low-income and middle-income countries.

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Assessment of progress in scaling up mental health services worldwide using a systematic review of literature and a survey of key national stakeholders in mental health suggested that successful strategies can be adopted to overcome barriers to scaling up.
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This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2011-10-29. It has received 549 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Scale (social sciences) & Mental health.

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Estimating the true global burden of mental illness.

TL;DR: It is argued that the global burden of mental illness is underestimated and the reasons for under-estimation are examined to identify five main causes: overlap between psychiatric and neurological disorders; the grouping of suicide and self-harm as a separate category; conflation of all chronic pain syndromes with musculoskeletal disorders; exclusion of personality disorders from disease burden calculations; and inadequate consideration of the contribution of severe mental illness to mortality from associated causes.
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Epidemiology of maternal depression, risk factors, and child outcomes in low-income and middle-income countries.

TL;DR: This review is intended to summarise findings from the existing literature, identify important knowledge gaps, and set the research agenda for creating new generalisable knowledge pertinent to increasing the authors' understanding of the prevalence, determinants, and infant and childhood health outcomes associated with perinatal depression.
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Culture and health

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the perceived distinction between the objectivity of science and the subjectivity of culture is itself a social fact (a common perception) and attribute the absence of awareness of the cultural dimensions of scientific practice to this distinction, especially for macrocultures and large societies.
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No health without mental health.

TL;DR: Mental health affects progress towards the achievement of several Millennium Development Goals, such as promotion of gender equality and empowerment of women, reduction of child mortality, improvement of maternal health, and reversal of the spread of HIV/AIDS.
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From the World Health Organization. Mental health: new understanding, new hope.

Gro Harlem Brundtland
- 21 Nov 2001 - 
TL;DR: Every country can and should begin now to improve its efforts to treat people with mental illness, and 10 recommendations on how governments can strengthen their country’s mental health care are concluded.
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Resources for mental health: scarcity, inequity, and inefficiency

TL;DR: Scarcity of available resources, inequities in their distribution, and inefficiencies in their use pose the three main obstacles to better mental health, especially in low-income and middle-income countries.
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