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.

This toolkit is a step-by-step guide for communities to engage in suicide prevention activities, acknowledging the critical role communities can play in preventing suicide.

This section contains evaluations of policy, law, strategic plans, and services from different countries

A high quality systematic review of studies validating brief CMD screening tools for use in LMIC populations.

A guide developed thought international consensus on how to support people in the immediate aftermath of extremely stressful events in LAMIC

The Thinking Health manual outlines an evidence-based approach describing how community health workers can reduce prenatal depression through evidence-based cognitive-behavioural techniques recommended by the mhGAP programme.

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.