A challenge faced by many countries is to provide adequate human resources for delivery of
essential mental health interventions. The overwhelming worldwide shortage of human …

Despite the publication of high-profile reports and promising activities in several countries,
progress in mental health service development has been slow in most low-income and …

Resources for mental health include policy and infrastructure within countries, mental health
services, community resources, human resources, and funding. We discuss here the general …

We call for the global health community, governments, donors, multilateral agencies, and
other mental health stakeholders, such as professional bodies and consumer groups, to …

Mental disorders constitute a huge global burden of disease, and there is a large treatment
gap, particularly in low-income and middle-income countries. One response to this issue has …

More than 85% of the world's population lives in 153 low-income and middle-income
countries (LAMICs). Although country-level information on mental health systems has …

About 14% of the global burden of disease has been attributed to neuropsychiatric
disorders, mostly due to the chronically disabling nature of depression and other common …

A burgeoning mental health crisis is emerging globally, regardless of each country's human
resources or spending. We argue that effectively responding to this crisis is impeded by the …

In 2007, The Lancet published a groundbreaking Series on global mental health that ended
with a call to action to scale up services for people with mental health problems guided by …

This Series paper describes the first systematic effort to review the unmet mental health
needs of adults in China and India. The evidence shows that contact coverage for the most …