Vikram Patel: Mental health for all by involving all
Vikram Patel: salud mental para todos involucrando a todos
Vikram Patel helps bring better mental health care to low-resource communities -- by teaching ordinary people to deliver basic psychiatric services. Full bio
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El ejemplo más obvio es el suicidio.
desde una perspectiva mundial.
las enfermedades mentales están
invalidez en el mundo.
Más allá de la carga de la enfermedad,
Recuerden que
increíblemente talentosos y compasivos.
por lo que sólo unos pocos
realizar algunas intervenciones.
a personas comunes y corrientes
en el mundo en vías de desarrollo.
Más o menos el 75 % de madres
de las intervenciones
menos capacitados puedan
no en grandes instituciones,
reasignar a los pocos especialistas
también es muy importante
con la supervisión adecuada y el apoyo,
médicas con buenos resultados,
con una enfermedad mental
que pueden transformar sus vidas
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Vikram Patel - Mental health care advocateVikram Patel helps bring better mental health care to low-resource communities -- by teaching ordinary people to deliver basic psychiatric services.
Why you should listen
In towns and villages that have few clinics, doctors and nurses, one particular need often gets overlooked: mental health. When there is no psychiatrist, how do people get care when they need it? Vikram Patel studies how to treat conditions like depression and schizophrenia in low-resource communities, and he's come up with a powerful model: training the community to help.
Based in Goa for much of the year, Patel is part of a policy group that's developing India's first national mental health policy; he's the co-founder of Sangath, a local NGO dedicated to mental health and family wellbeing. In London, he co-directs the Centre for Global Mental Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. And he led the efforts to set up the Movement for Global Mental Health, a network that supports mental health care as a basic human right.
From Sangath's mission statement: "At the heart of our vision lies the ‘treatment gap’ for mental disorders; the gap between the number of people with a mental disorder and the number who receive care for their mental disorders."
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