Year: 2010
Type: dissertation
Abstract: This research study aims at enhancing the utilisation of primary mental health care services in Dodoma, Tanzania.Primary health care (PHC) according to the Alma Ata conference 1948 is an essential part of the health care system for bringing health care closer to where people live and work, is people-centred, affordable and achieves better health outcomes, and is considered to contribute to communities' social and economical development.PHC facilities in Tanzania are health centres and dispensaries, which are within five kilometres from where people live.In the 1980s' countries integrated mental health into PHC to improve the mental health status of their people.To facilitate delivery of Primary Mental Health Care (PMHC), Tanzania has formulated a mental health policy and trained PHC workers on mental health.Despite of these efforts, people still go to referral hospitals for mental health care services.However, authors commented that "when comprehensive primary health is implemented fully" it will bring about security, safety and hope to people and therefore, they will continue to fend for health for all.The main aim was to explore and describe why people go to referral hospitals instead of utilising PMHC services closer to them.A qualitative descriptive clinical ethnographic
Author: Anna Shemu Mangula
Language: English
Subfield: Psychiatry and Mental health
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W108436685