Basic standards for management of patients with common mental illnesses in primary care.
At least 95% of mental health problems are dealt with entirely in primary care. The other 5% are referred to secondary care, but these will be dealt with jointly by primary care services and secondary care services. Mental Health problems provide a major burden to primary care services, the doctors who operate in those services- the General Practitioners-, and their staff Standards need to be set in order to clarify what an adequate primary care response should be to the provision of mental health care. We propose a set of standards which are evidence based and which are correlated with the recent WHO declaration on Mental Health in Europe.
Agius
Mark
M
Bedfordshire Centre for Mental Health Research in Association With University of Cambridge, England. mark.aguis@blpt.nhs.uk
Biocina
Sanja Martić
SM
Alptekin
Koksal
K
Rotstein
Vladimir
V
Morselli
Paolo
P
Persaud
Albert
A
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