title: Integrating mental health into public health: The community mental health development project in India.
abstract: The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and its public health institutes are collaborating with Asia Australia Mental Health on an innovative community mental health development project designed to enhance initiatives under the District Mental Health Program and increase accessibility of essential community mental health services. The project is an exciting opportunity to create positive change in meeting the challenges of community mental health care in India. It recognizes that no one single model of care can be applied to all the community in the country and that locally appropriate models working in close partnership with local communities is required. Targeted and skill-based training programs are useful to build local leadership capacity in implementing quality and culturally appropriate community mental health services.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
authors.forename: Chee
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ng
authors.affiliation: Hospital for Mental Health, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.
authors.forename: Ajay P
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Chauhan
authors.affiliation: Government Medical College, Chandigarh, India.
authors.forename: Bir Singh
authors.initials: BS
authors.lastname: Chavan
authors.affiliation: Madurai Medical College, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India.
authors.forename: Chellamuthu
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ramasubramanian
authors.affiliation: Ranchi Institute of Neuro-Psychiatry & Allied Sciences, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India.
authors.forename: Amool R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Singh
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
authors.forename: Rajesh
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sagar
authors.affiliation: The Asialink Centre, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
authors.forename: Julia
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Fraser
authors.affiliation: International Unit, St. Vincent's Mental Health, Australia.
authors.forename: Brigid
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Ryan
authors.affiliation: Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, India.
authors.forename: Jagdish
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Prasad
authors.affiliation: Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, India.
authors.forename: Sujeet
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Singh
authors.affiliation: National Institute of Health and Family Welfare, New Delhi, India.
authors.forename: Jayanta
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Das
authors.affiliation: The University of Western Australia, Australia.
authors.forename: Mohan
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Isaac
keywords: Community; mental health; partnerships