Improving access to mental health care and psychosocial support within a fragile context: a case study from Afghanistan.
As one article in a series on Global Mental Health Practice, Peter Ventevogel and colleagues provide a case study of their efforts to integrate brief, practice-oriented mental health training into the Afghanistan health care system at a time when the system was being rebuilt from scratch.
Department of Research and Development, HealthNet TPO, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. peter@peterventevogel.com
Peter
P
Ventevogel
Willem
W
van de Put
Hafizullah
H
Faiz
Bibiane
B
van Mierlo
Majeed
M
Siddiqi
Ivan H
IH
Komproe
D000346:Afghanistan; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D008603:Mental Health; D008605:Mental Health Services; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000193:education*; D012944:Social Support