In the course of implementing a recently funded network of hubs for building capacities in mental health service development, training, and research (RedeAmericas), the peer support workers are being introduced into the mental health workforce in three Latin American countries for the very first tim...e. They will be part of a team, along with community mental health workers, that provides a modified Critical Time Intervention to individuals with severe psychiatric disorders living in the community. This article reviewed the background of this increasingly widespread development, and discussed its merits, as well as potential obstacles within local contexts.
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BMC Pedaitrics. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2431-12-90
A resource for improving menstraul hygiene around the world.
Comprehensive guidance with examples of good practice, information for colleagues and pupils in class and tips on how to break the taboo
This course describes the health effects of war, weapons and strategies of violent conflict. Beginning with weapons of mass destruction it then moves on to other weapons and strategies of war such as the use of landmines and mass rape. The course concludes with a number of lessons which give an hist...orical and practical analysis of the response of health professional groups to war and militarisation.
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Externalising disorders
Chapter D.2
Anxiety disorders
Chapter F.3
Other disorders
Chapter H.5
Externalizing disorders
Chapter D.1
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
Alcohol misuses
Substance use disorders
Chapter G.1
A toolkit for behavioural and social communication in outbreak response