Author : World Health Organization. Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse,World Health Organization. Mental Health Evidence and Research Team
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Medical personnel
ISBN : 9789241562966
Mental Health Atlas 2005 by World Health Organization. Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse,World Health Organization. Mental Health Evidence and Research Team Pdf
This atlas is aimed at collecting, compiling and desseminating information on mental health resources in the world. It presents updated and expanded information from 192 countries with analyses of global and regional trends as well as individual country profiles. Newly included in this volume is a section on epidemiology within the profiles of all low and middle income countries. It shows that mental health resources within most countries remain inadequate despite modest improvments since 2001. Availability of mental health resources across countries and between regions remains substantially uneven, with many countries having few resources. The atlas reinforces the urgent need to enhance mental health resources within countries.