Mutual Capacity Building to Reduce the Behavioral Health Treatment Gap Globally

Use of lay health workers for the treatment of common mental disorders is an expanding, yet still underutilized, opportunity for closing the behavioral health treatment gap globally. In this commentary, we describe how “mutual capacity building,” an equal exchange of ideas between low and middle-inc...

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Main Authors: Jack, H.E., Myers-Franchi, Bronwyn, Regenauer, K.S., Magidson, J.F.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: SPRINGER 2020
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/85652
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author Jack, H.E.
Myers-Franchi, Bronwyn
Regenauer, K.S.
Magidson, J.F.
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description Use of lay health workers for the treatment of common mental disorders is an expanding, yet still underutilized, opportunity for closing the behavioral health treatment gap globally. In this commentary, we describe how “mutual capacity building,” an equal exchange of ideas between low and middle-income countries (LMICs) and high-income countries (HICs) to promote shared learning, could promote the development and scale-up of therapies using lay health workers. We propose ways that task sharing models for behavioral health can inform and be supported by bidirectional learning across HICs and LMICs.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-856522021-10-21T03:04:07Z Mutual Capacity Building to Reduce the Behavioral Health Treatment Gap Globally Jack, H.E. Myers-Franchi, Bronwyn Regenauer, K.S. Magidson, J.F. Science & Technology Life Sciences & Biomedicine Health Policy & Services Public, Environmental & Occupational Health Health Care Sciences & Services Global mental health Peer support Community health workers Lay health workers Mutual capacity building MENTAL-HEALTH PEER SUPPORT CARE WORKERS SERVICES Use of lay health workers for the treatment of common mental disorders is an expanding, yet still underutilized, opportunity for closing the behavioral health treatment gap globally. In this commentary, we describe how “mutual capacity building,” an equal exchange of ideas between low and middle-income countries (LMICs) and high-income countries (HICs) to promote shared learning, could promote the development and scale-up of therapies using lay health workers. We propose ways that task sharing models for behavioral health can inform and be supported by bidirectional learning across HICs and LMICs. 2020 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/85652 10.1007/s10488-019-00999-y English http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ SPRINGER fulltext
spellingShingle Science & Technology
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Health Policy & Services
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Health Care Sciences & Services
Global mental health
Peer support
Community health workers
Lay health workers
Mutual capacity building
MENTAL-HEALTH
PEER SUPPORT
CARE
WORKERS
SERVICES
Jack, H.E.
Myers-Franchi, Bronwyn
Regenauer, K.S.
Magidson, J.F.
Mutual Capacity Building to Reduce the Behavioral Health Treatment Gap Globally
title Mutual Capacity Building to Reduce the Behavioral Health Treatment Gap Globally
title_full Mutual Capacity Building to Reduce the Behavioral Health Treatment Gap Globally
title_fullStr Mutual Capacity Building to Reduce the Behavioral Health Treatment Gap Globally
title_full_unstemmed Mutual Capacity Building to Reduce the Behavioral Health Treatment Gap Globally
title_short Mutual Capacity Building to Reduce the Behavioral Health Treatment Gap Globally
title_sort mutual capacity building to reduce the behavioral health treatment gap globally
topic Science & Technology
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Health Policy & Services
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Health Care Sciences & Services
Global mental health
Peer support
Community health workers
Lay health workers
Mutual capacity building
MENTAL-HEALTH
PEER SUPPORT
CARE
WORKERS
SERVICES
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/85652