Jacob 2001) successfully highlights the problems of community care of people with mental
disorders in developing countries. Both he and the Journal are to be commended for …

The declared aim of the World Health Organization, based on the Alma Ata declaration
(1978), is to promote health care for all by the year 2000. It is recognised that this can be …

There has been a rush towards community psychiatry in the developed world in the past few
decades (Tyrer, 1998a). In developing countries the concept has been equally popular and …

Farooq be useful in this context. Small groups of practitioners can help to support and
maintain each other in CPD. An appraiser or mentor who inspires and challenges critical …

The enlarged scope of the mental health programmes Director General of Health Services,
1982), with emphasis on positive and preventive mental health, is ideal but beyond the …

There are significant differences in approaches to the training of psychiatrists in developed
and developing countries. In the latter, with acute shortages of manpower in psychiatry and …

How relevant is the training which postgraduate psychiatrists from the developing world
receive in the West? Are the investigations, treatment, and clinical practices taught in the UK …

As the move towards community based psychiatry gathers momentum, it becomes
increasingly important that psychiatrists are adequately trained to take on their changing role …

The stimulating and thought provoking paper by Thornicroft et al takes us back to the time
we started psychiatric career in the early 1970s, when the issue of deinstitutionalization was …

When the editors suggested that I should write about psychiatry in developed and
developing countries in the past 50 years I thought that they might have made the title …