title: The 'longlong' population of Ialibu District, Southern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea: contact with health services and care in the village.
abstract: The aim of the study was to describe the general behaviour, living arrangements and level of health services contact of the mentally ill population of a health district in Papua New Guinea. The immediate relatives of 31 'longlong' people living in Ialibu District were interviewed. About half of the mentally ill subjects were able to cook and look after a garden. Just over half had engaged in physical violence or stolen and one-fifth had been physically restrained. Almost all were living in their own village although not all were living with their own families. Just over half had had contact with health services and this contact had usually been brief and, in the relatives' eyes, unsatisfactory.
authors.affiliation: Ialibu Health Centre, Southern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Buchanan
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D001294:Attitude to Health / Q000208:ethnology; D006296:Health Services / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006302:Health Services Research; D006798:Housing / Q000592:standards; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology*; D010219:Papua New Guinea / Q000453:epidemiology; D016495:Police / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012919:Social Behavior