Nigeria, like other African countries, is short of personnel trained in mental healthcare.
Efforts to tackle the problem have often focused on increasing the numbers of psychiatrists …

The availability of mental health resources in most developing countries is poor due to
scarcity of resources, competing health problems, and the low priority given to mental health …

28 Volume 9 No. 2 September 2003-SAJP resulting in lack of reliable data. As a result,
efficient and costeffective forms of available interventions cannot be shared among the …

Within the continent of Africa, mental health services are relatively undeveloped. In the sub-
Saharan countries of Malawi, Kenya and Nigeria, similar problems are faced by dedicated …

164 World Psychiatry 2: 3-October 2003 to public health has been much weaker-as in some
South Asian, African and Latin American countries-primary care has come to constitute a …

Objective: Africa faces a skills shortage, in spite of training suitably qualified professionals.
This is particularly evident in the discipline of Psychiatry. An analysis of the distribution and …

Mental health services at the primary healthcare level remain critical in most developing
countries, especially in resource-poor and crisis-stricken communities. This study explored …

Psychiatric services in Matabeleland - a comparison with services existing in developed
countries Page 1 4 May 1974 SA MEDICAL JOUR 'AL 925 Psychiatric Services • In …

Professor Mark Tomlinson of the Centre for Public Mental Health, Department of Psychology,
at Stellenbosch University, in South Africa, says that it has been estimated that in low-and …

To obtain information about practicing psychiatrists in South Africa, a questionnaire was
mailed in 1993 to all 378 registered psychiatrists, of whom 210 (55.6 percent) responded …