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Improving Access to Mental Health Care and Psychosocial Support within a Fragile Context: A Case Study from Afghanistan

Year: 2012

Type: article

Abstract: As one article in a series on Global Mental Health Practice, Peter Ventevogel and colleagues provide a case study of their efforts to integrate brief, practice-oriented mental health training into the Afghanistan health care system at a time when the system was being rebuilt from scratch.

Source: PLoS Medicine

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001225

Authors: Peter Ventevogel, Willem van de Put, Hafizullah Faiz, Bibiane van Mierlo, Majeed Siddiqi, Ivan H. Komproe

Institutions: HealthNet TPO, Utrecht University

Language: English

Topic: Mental Health Treatment and Access

Subfield: Social Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $6,460