Resources

This Review aims to improve the understanding of implementation of mental health programmes in primary health care for common mental health disorders in low-income and middle-income countries. Objectives were to identify barriers and facilitators to implementation, and to adopt a pre-existing framework for understanding implementation determinants to synthesise available evidence and identify research gaps.

This is a MHIN summary for a Systematic Review entitled 'Global mental health’: systematic review of the term and its implicit priorities' (Misra et al., 2019).

This systematic review details new WHO prevalence estimates on depression, anxiety disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia in conflict-affected settings.

This systematic review details mental health of people detained within the justice system in Africa and human rights abuses within these facilities.

This review describe the most relevant concepts and models of integrated care for people with chronic (or recurring) mental illness and comorbid physical health conditions, provides a conceptual overview and a narrative review of the strength of the evidence base for these models in high-income countries and in low-income and middle-income countries, and identifies opportunities to test the feasibility and effects of such integrated care models.

This review synthesizes qualitative and quantitative research about pathways to mental health care in Brazil.

An Editorial from the BMJ written by Graham Thornicroft and Vikram Patel advocating for the inclusion of the inclusion of mental health on the post 2015 agenda.

Systematic review of published and unpublished literature in English, Spanish and French, on evidence of scaling up mental health services in LMIC.

This literature review examines the overall landscape and current mental health context for Syrian refugees in Turkey at a broad level.

Literature review on how to devise culturally-appropriate MHPSS interventions in Ebola-affected areas.

Useful background information (in English and Spanish) on Ecuador and the effects of the earthquake from an MHPSS perspective.

This scoping review is an evaluation of monitoring and evaluation frameworks for mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) programs in humanitarian settings.

This systematic review is the first study that systematically assessed randomised controlled trials on focused psychosocial support interventions for children exposed to traumatic events in humanitarian settings in low-income countries.

A MHIN summary for the systematic review entitled 'Psychological Treatments for the World: Lessons from Low- and Middle-Income Countries' (Singla et al., 2017).