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Building the capacity of policy-makers and planners to strengthen mental health systems in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review

Author: Keynejad, Roxanne ; Semrau, Maya ; Toynbee, Mark ; Evans-Lacko, Sara ; Lund, Crick ; Gureje, Oye ; Ndyanabangi, Sheila ; Courtin, Emilie ; Abdulmalik, Jibril O ; Alem, Atalay ; Fekadu, Abebaw ; Thornicroft, Graham ; Hanlon, Charlotte Date: 21 Oct 2016 Background: Little is known about the interventions required to build the capacity of mental health policy-makers and planners in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). We conducted a systematic review with the primary aim of identifying ... Read more c b
Catastrophic health expenditure and impoverishment in households of persons with depression: a cross-sectional, comparative study in rural Ethiopia

Author: Hailemichael, Yohannes ; Hanlon, Charlotte ; Tirfessa, Kebede ; Docrat, Sumaiyah ; Alem, Atalay ; Medhin, Girmay ; Lund, Crick ; Chisholm, Dan ; Fekadu, Abebaw ; Hailemariam, Damen Date: 11 Jul 2019 Abstract Background The extent of catastrophic health expenditure and impoverishment associated with depression in low-and middle-income countries is not known. The aim of this study was to ... Read more
Catastrophic out-of-pocket payments for households of people with severe mental disorder: a comparative study in rural Ethiopia

Author: Hailemichael, Yohannes ; Hailemariam, Damen ; Tirfessa, Kebede ; Docrat, Sumaiyah ; Alem, Atalay ; Medhin, Girmay ; Lund, Crick ; Chisholm, Dan ; Fekadu, Abebaw ; Hanlon, Charlotte Date: 01 Jun 2019 Abstract Background There are limited data on healthcare spending by households containing a person with severe mental disorder (SMD) in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). This study ... Read more
Correction to: Task sharing for the care of severe mental disorders in a low-income country (TaSCS): study protocol for a randomised, controlled, non-inferiority trial

Author: Hanlon, Charlotte ; Alem, Atalay ; Medhin, Girmay ; Shibre, Teshome ; Ejigu, Dawit A ; Negussie, Hanna ; Dewey, Michael ; Wissow, Lawrence ; Prince, Martin ; Susser, Ezra ; Lund, Crick ; Fekadu, Abebaw Date: 06 Oct 2020 An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article. Read more
Health systems context(s) for integrating mental health into primary health care in six Emerald countries: a situation analysis

Author: Mugisha, James ; Abdulmalik, Jibril ; Hanlon, Charlotte ; Petersen, Inge ; Lund, Crick ; Upadhaya, Nawaraj ; Ahuja, Shalini ; Shidhaye, Rahul ; Mntambo, Ntokozo ; Alem, Atalay ; Gureje, Oye ; Kigozi, Fred Date: 05 Jan 2017 Background: Mental, neurological and substance use disorders contribute to a significant proportion of the world’s disease burden, including in low and middle income countries (LMICs). In this study, we focused on the health systems required ... Read more
Information systems for mental health in six low and middle income countries: cross country situation analysis

Author: Upadhaya, Nawaraj ; Jordans, Mark J D ; Abdulmalik, Jibril ; Ahuja, Shalini ; Alem, Atalay ; Hanlon, Charlotte ; Kigozi, Fred ; Kizza, Dorothy ; Lund, Crick ; Semrau, Maya ; Shidhaye, Rahul ; Thornicroft, Graham ; Komproe, Ivan H ; Gureje, Oye Date: 26 Sep 2016 Background: Research on information systems for mental health in low and middle income countries (LMICs) is scarce. As a result, there is a lack of reliable information on mental health service needs, treatment coverage and the quality of ... Read more c b
Mental health problems and socioeconomic disadvantage: a controlled household study in rural Ethiopia

Author: Hailemichael, Yohannes ; Hanlon, Charlotte ; Tirfessa, Kebede ; Docrat, Sumaiyah ; Alem, Atalay ; Medhin, Girmay ; Fekadu, Abebaw ; Lund, Crick ; Chisholm, Dan ; Hailemariam, Damen Date: 31 Jul 2019 Abstract Background There is a lack of high quality population-based studies from low- and middle-income countries examining the relative economic status of households with and without a member ... Read more
Moving towards universal health coverage for mental disorders in Ethiopia

Author: Hanlon, Charlotte ; Alem, Atalay ; Lund, Crick ; Hailemariam, Damen ; Assefa, Esubalew ; Giorgis, Tedla W ; Chisholm, Dan Date: 25 Feb 2019 Background People with mental disorders in low-income countries are at risk of being left behind during efforts to expand universal health coverage. Aims To ... Read more
Non-fatal suicidal behaviour in rural Ethiopia: a cross-sectional facility- and population-based study

Author: Fekadu, Abebaw ; Medhin, Girmay ; Selamu, Medhin ; Shiferaw, Tsion ; Hailemariam, Maji ; Rathod, Sujit D ; Jordans, Mark ; Teferra, Solomon ; Lund, Crick ; Breuer, Erica ; Prince, Martin ; Giorgis, Tedla W ; Alem, Atalay ; Hanlon, Charlotte Date: 22 Mar 2016 Background: Injury related to self-harm is one of the leading causes of global disease burden. As a formative work for a programme to implement comprehensive mental healthcare in a rural district in Ethiopia, we determined the 12-month ... Read more c b
Population level mental distress in rural Ethiopia

Author: Fekadu, Abebaw ; Medhin, Girmay ; Selamu, Medhin ; Hailemariam, Maji ; Alem, Atalay ; Giorgis, Tedla ; Breuer, Erica ; Lund, Crick ; Prince, Martin ; Hanlon, Charlotte Date: 2014 BACKGROUND:As part of a situational analysis for a research programme on the integration of mental health care into primary care (Programme for Improving Mental Health Care-PRIME), we conducted a baseline study aimed at determining the broad ... Read more c b
Recognition of depression by primary care clinicians in rural Ethiopia

Author: Fekadu, Abebaw ; Medhin, Girmay ; Selamu, Medhin ; Giorgis, Tedla W ; Lund, Crick ; Alem, Atalay ; Prince, Martin ; Hanlon, Charlotte Date: 21 Apr 2017 Background: Depression is a common health condition affecting up to a third of patients attending primary care, where most of the care for people with depression is provided. Adequate recognition of depression is the critical step in the path ... Read more
Service user involvement in mental health system strengthening in a rural African setting: qualitative study

Author: Abayneh, Sisay ; Lempp, Heidi ; Alem, Atalay ; Alemayehu, Daniel ; Eshetu, Tigist ; Lund, Crick ; Semrau, Maya ; Thornicroft, Graham ; Hanlon, Charlotte Date: 18 May 2017 Background: It is essential to involve service users in efforts to expand access to mental health care in integrated primary care settings in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). However, there is little evidence from LMICs to guide this ... Read more
Task sharing for the care of severe mental disorders in a low-income country (TaSCS): study protocol for a randomised, controlled, non-inferiority trial

Author: Hanlon, Charlotte ; Alem, Atalay ; Medhin, Girmay ; Shibre, Teshome ; Ejigu, Dawit A ; Negussie, Hanna ; Dewey, Michael ; Wissow, Lawrence ; Prince, Martin ; Susser, Ezra ; Lund, Crick ; Fekadu, Abebaw Date: 11 Feb 2016 Background: Task sharing mental health care through integration into primary health care (PHC) is advocated as a means of narrowing the treatment gap for mental disorders in low-income countries. However, the effectiveness, acceptability, ... Read more c b
Task sharing of a psychological intervention for maternal depression in Khayelitsha, South Africa: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Author: Lund, Crick ; Schneider, Marguerite ; Davies, Thandi ; Nyatsanza, Memory ; Honikman, Simone ; Bhana, Arvin ; Bass, Judith ; Bolton, Paul ; Dewey, Michael ; Joska, John ; Kagee, Ashraf ; Myer, Landon ; Petersen, Inge ; Prince, Martin ; Stein, Dan J ; Thornicroft, Graham ; Tomlinson, Mark ; Alem, Atalay ; Susser, Ezra Date: 21 Nov 2014 Background: Maternal depression carries a major public health burden for mothers and their infants, yet there is a substantial treatment gap for this condition in low-resourced regions such as sub-Saharan Africa. To address this treatment ... Read more c b
The psychosis treatment gap and its consequences in rural Ethiopia

Author: Fekadu, Abebaw ; Medhin, Girmay ; Lund, Crick ; DeSilva, Mary ; Selamu, Medhin ; Alem, Atalay ; Asher, Laura ; Birhane, Rahel ; Patel, Vikram ; Hailemariam, Maji ; Shibre, Teshome ; Thornicroft, Graham ; Prince, Martin ; Hanlon, Charlotte Date: 29 Oct 2019 Abstract Background The “treatment gap” (TG) for mental disorders, widely advocated by the WHO in low-and middle-income countries, is an important indicator of the extent to which a health system ... Read more
“We need more big trees as well as the grass roots”: going beyond research capacity building to develop sustainable careers in mental health research in African countries

Author: Langhaug, Lisa F ; Jack, Helen ; Hanlon, Charlotte ; Holzer, Stefan ; Sorsdahl, Katherine ; Mutedzi, Barbara ; Mangezi, Walter ; Merritt, Christopher ; Alem, Atalay ; Stewart, Robert ; Bandawe, Chiwoza ; Musesengwa, Rosemary ; Abas, Melanie ; Chibanda, Dixon ; Lund, Crick Date: 14 Aug 2020 Abstract Background There are substantial gaps in our knowledge regarding the aetiology of mental, neurological and substance use disorders in sub-Saharan Africa, and the cost-effectiveness and ... Read more

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