title: Rich Country, Poor People: the challenges of providing psychiatric services in the public and the private sectors in Papua New Guinea.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe some of the challenges in the provision of psychiatric services in Papua New Guinea.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Many of the challenges faced when providing mental health care are not clinical in nature, but rather a combination of social, cultural, economic and infrastructural factors that hinder the adequate provision of, and access to, psychiatric services in Papua New Guinea.
authors.affiliation: Head of Psychiatry, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Papua New Guinea, Boroko, NCD, Papua New Guinea florencemuga@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: Florence
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Muga
mesh_terms: D003906:Developing Countries; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D008605:Mental Health Services; D010219:Papua New Guinea; D017149:Private Sector; D017150:Public Sector
keywords: Papua New Guinea; mental health care; psychiatric services; service factors