Community psychiatry care: an urgent need in Nigeria
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Author(s)
Omotunde, Soroye Modupeoluwa
Oleribe, Obinna O
Taylor-Robinson, Simon
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Nigeria’s mental health policy was formulated in 1991, but it did not make adequate provision for community-based psychiatric care. Since there are only seven government-owned psychiatry facilities in Nigeria and these are always overwhelmed, there is the need to overhaul the existing policy and emphasise the urgency of a shift from inpatient psychiatric mental healthcare towards a community-based multidisciplinary psychiatric healthcare system.
Date Issued
2021-05-20
Date Acceptance
2021-04-28
Citation
Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare, 2021, 14, pp.1145-1148
ISSN
1178-2390
Publisher
Dove Medical Press
Start Page
1145
End Page
1148
Journal / Book Title
Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare
Volume
14
Copyright Statement
© 2021 Soroye et al. This work is published by Dove Medical Press Limited, and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. The full terms of the License are available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited
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Sponsor
Wellcome Trust
Wellcome Trust
Grant Number
097816/Z/11/ZR
097816/Z/11/A
Subjects
Nigeria
community psychiatry
depression
mental health
11 Medical and Health Sciences
Publication Status
Published