title: Integrating treatment for mental and physical disorders and substance misuse in Indigenous primary care settings.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Australian Indigenous peoples in remote and rural settings continue to have limited access to treatment for mental illness. Comorbid disorders complicate presentations in primary care where Indigenous youths and perinatal women are at particular risk. Despite this high comorbidity there are few examples of successful models of integrated treatment. This paper outlines these challenges and provides recommendations for practice that derive from recent developments in the Northern Territory.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  There is a strong need to develop evidence for the effectiveness of integrated and culturally informed individual and service level interventions. We describe the Best practice in Early intervention Assessment and Treatment of depression and substance misuse study which seeks to address this need.
authors: Menzies School of Health Research and Charles Darwin University, Adjunct Associate Professor James Cook University and Charles Darwin University, Casuarina, NT, Australia. tricia.nagel@menzies.edu.au
authors: Tricia
authors: T
authors: Nagel
authors: David
authors: D
authors: Kavanagh
authors: Lesley
authors: L
authors: Barclay
authors: Thomas
authors: T
authors: Trauer
authors: Richard
authors: R
authors: Chenhall
authors: Jennifer
authors: J
authors: Frendin
authors: Carolyn
authors: C
authors: Griffin
mesh_terms: D019033:Delivery of Health Care, Integrated / Q000379:methods*; D006303:Health Services, Indigenous / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D015876:Northern Territory; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*