Global Mental Health: From Science to Action
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This article charts the historical development of the discipline of global mental health, whose goal is to improve access to mental health care and reduce inequalities in mental health outcomes between and within nations. The article begins with an overview of the contribution of four scientific foundations toward the discipline's core agenda: to scale up services for people with mental disorders and to promote their human rights. Next, the article highlights four recent, key events that are indicative of the actions shaping the discipline: the Mental Health Gap Action Programme to synthesize evidence on what treatments are effective for a range of mental disorders; the evidence on task shifting to nonspecialist health workers to deliver these treatments; the Movement for Global Mental Health's efforts to build a common platform for professionals and civil society to advocate for their shared goal; and the Grand Challenges in Global Mental Health, which has identified the research priorities that, within the next decade, can lead to substantial improvements in the lives of people living with mental disorders. The article ends by examining the major challenges for the field, and the opportunities for addressing them in the future.
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Task shifting could enhance mental health care in rural and other underserved areas of both low- and high-income nations.
“task shifting has the potential to improve mental health care in rural or otherwise underserved settings in low and high income countries.8,9”
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Task shifting in mental health has been widely successful, demonstrating that community health workers can be trained to provide care to individuals with mental health conditions in lower and middle income countries.
“Task shifting in the field of mental health has been widely successful, demonstrating that community health workers can be trained to provide care to individuals with mental health conditions in lower and middle income countries”
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- Authors
- Patel, V.
- Affiliations
- London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Patel, Vikram
- ORCID
- Patel, Vikram
- Venue
- Harvard Review of Psychiatry
- Published
- 2012-02-08
- Volume
- 20
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 6-12
- ISSN
- 1067-3229 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC3335087
- OpenAlex
- W2035179270
- Cited by
- 183
- References
- 39
- Citations by year
- 2026: 8 · 2025: 14 · 2024: 11 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 15 · 2021: 20 · 2020: 20 · 2019: 12 · 2018: 18 · 2017: 14 · 2016: 9 · 2015: 17 · 2014: 9 · 2013: 5
- FWCI
- 14.81
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Licence
- cc-by
- Locations
- Harvard Review of Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- LSHTM Research Online (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- Wellcome Trust (091834/Z/10/Z, 091834)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Global Health and Surgery
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychiatric care and mental health services
- Keywords
- global mental health, access to mental health care, mental health disparities, Mental Health Gap Action Programme, task shifting, mental illness, human rights of people with mental illness, research priorities
- MeSH terms
- Mental Disorders, Humans, Human Rights, International Cooperation, Mental Health, Mental Health Services, Global Health, History, 20th Century, History, 21st Century
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