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New guidelines on mental health in Peru
(Elsevier, 2019)
In October, 2018, the Ministry of Health of Peru approved the sectoral policy guidelines on mental health, which update those published 14 years ago. The five guidelines highlight the transitional framework of public mental ...
Peruvian Mental Health Reform: A Framework for Scaling-up Mental Health Services
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2017)
BACKGROUND: Mental, neurological, and substance (MNS) use disorders are a leading cause of disability worldwide; specifically in Peru, MNS affect 1 in 5 persons. However, the great majority of people suffering from these ...
Comorbidity of common mental disorders with cancer and their treatment gap: Findings from the World Mental Health Surveys
(Wiley, 2014)
Objective: This study aimed to study the comorbidity of common mental disorders (CMDs) and cancer, and the mental health treatment gap among community residents with active cancer, cancer survivors and cancer-free respondents ...
The implications of COVID-19 for mental health status of an upper middle-income country, Peru
(Elsevier, 2020)
Peru reported its first case of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on March 6, 2020 (Worldometer, 2020) and it has become the sixth most infected nation, with 814.829 cases and the second country with the highest mortality ...
Grand challenges in global mental health
(Springer Nature, 2011)
A consortium of researchers, advocates and clinicians announces here research priorities for improving the lives of people with mental illness around the world, and calls for urgent action and investment. Schizophrenia, ...
The WPA-Lancet Psychiatry Commission on the Future of Psychiatry
(Elsevier, 2017)
Background. This Commission addresses several priority areas for psychiatry over the next decade, and into the 21st century. These represent challenges and opportunities for the profession to sustain and develop itself to ...
Integration of a Technology-Based Mental Health Screening Program Into Routine Practices of Primary Health Care Services in Peru (The Allillanchu Project): Development and Implementation
(JMIR Publications, 2018)
BACKGROUND: Despite their high prevalence and significant burden, mental disorders such as depression remain largely underdiagnosed and undertreated. OBJECTIVE: The aim of the Allillanchu Project was to design, develop, ...
Access of Mental Health Services by the Adult Population in Metropolitan Lima, Peru: Characteristics, Perceptions and Need for Care
(Springer, 2020)
This study aimed to characterize mental health service access in metropolitan Lima, Peru. Between May and December 2012, we interviewed 4,445 Peruvian adults, applying the Mini-International Neuropsychiatric Interview ...
Stigma towards mental illness and substance use issues in primary health care: Challenges and opportunities for Latin America
(Taylor and Francis, 2018)
Stigma towards mental illness and addictive disorders is a global problem and one of the main obstacles in tackling this issue remains the effective integration of mental health services into primary health care (PHC). In ...
Assessing essential service provision for prevention and management of violence against women in a remote indigenous community in Amantaní, Peru
(BioMed Central, 2023)
Background: Women living in indigenous communities in Peru currently experience extremely high rates of intimate partner violence (IPV). Over the past 10 years, there has been a large multi-sectoral initiative to establish ...