Integrating mental health in primary health care package

Introduction

Mental, neurological and substance use disorders are extremely common, though they are often hidden from sight. In every 10 people, there is one who is suffering from a mental health condition. This directly affects one in four families globally. Mental health conditions have become an even more pressing concern for most countries of the Eastern Mediterranean, because this region has faced an unprecedented number of humanitarian crises. Trauma, isolation, displacement, loss and poverty generate a surge in psychosocial need and disruption of existing health systems.

The good news is that effective treatments are available and affordable, but until now there is a huge treatment gap, leaving the majority of people with mental health conditions to suffer distress and disability without treatment; and placing an ongoing burden on their families and society.

Our challenge is to develop health systems that deliver accessible cost-effective treatment available to all those who need it – universal health coverage for priority mental health interventions.

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Integrating mental health in primary health care: part 1. the context for integration of mental health services in primary health care

Integrating mental health in primary health care: part 2. guide to assessing health system preparedness for mental health service integration in primary health care

Integrating mental health in primary health care: part 3. toolkit for integration of mental health in primary health care

Integrating mental health in primary health care: part 4. toolkit for monitoring and evaluation 

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Advocacy tools

Afghanistan case study

Case study on mental health policy in Jordan 

Case study on policy development and implementation in Qatar 

Case study on role of family associations in improving quality of mental health care in Morocco

Core competencies for non-specialized prescribers and specialized providers 

Core set of reporting forms

Ethiopia One Health case study

Example of a long-hand calculation of PHC nurse staffing requirements to deliver a mental health intervention for depression in PHC

GANTT chart

Integrating and prioritizing mental health care in NCD programmes

Interagency referral form

Inter-agency referrals

Jordan case study

Lebanon case study

Mental Health Atlas 2017 questionnaire

Metadata for 11 additional indicators for the regional framework to scale up action on mental health in the Eastern Mediterranean Region

MHPSS and mhGAP daily journal

MHPSS file

New, referral and closed cases MHPSS and mhGAP register  

Occupied Palestinian territory case study 

Preparedness checklist

Psychosocial counsellor intervention

Questions to collect data for 11 additional indicators for the regional framework to scale up action on mental health in the Eastern Mediterranean Region

Resources for governance

Sample monthly reporting form

Sample referral forms

SMART and CLEAR checklist

Stakeholder analysis matrix

SWOT matrix

Technical instructions and management protocols on MHPSS

WHO-AIMS items that supplement the Mental Health Atlas 2017

Worked example of the calculation of the price of purchasing medication Fluoxetine

Worked example of the calculation of the price of purchasing medication for long-term treatment Fluphenazine