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Comprehensive community mental health care initiative

Medical Health - General

Global pattern of experienced and anticipated discrimination reported by people with major depressive disorder:
A cross-sectional survey

Medical Health - Maanasi 1

Initiating a Community Mental Health Programme in Rural Karnataka

Medical Health - Maanasi 2

Initiating a Community Mental Health Programme in Rural Karnataka

Maanasi - Publication by Dr. Geetha Jayaram

Asian Journal of Psychiatry - Overcoming cultural barriers to deliver comprehensive rural community mental health care in Southern India

WHO Reports Mental Illness

Poverty and common mental disorders in developing countries

WHO Mental Health Challenge 2013 - 2020

The global burden of mental disorders is large and continues to grow. Health system throughout the world struggling to respond adequately to the needs of people with mental health problems.

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Partnership, Sponsorship, Contributions and Donations

International 2007. National Family Health Survey 2005-2006, India, Key Findings: Mumbai: IIPS.


The WHO World Mental Health Survey Consortium. Prevalence, Severity and Unmet Need for treatment of Mental Disorders in the World Health Organization World Mental health Surveys. JAMA. 2004;291(21):2581-2590.

Isaac M, Chand P, Murthy P. Research, empiricism and clinical practice in low-income countries. International Review of Psychiatry. 2007;19(5):559-571.

Sartorius N. Scientific work in Third World Countries. Acta Psychiatr Scand. 1998;98:345-347

Sartorius N, Jablensky A, Korten A, et al. Early Manifestations and first-contact incidence of schizophrenia in different cultures. Psychological Medicine. 1986;16:909-928

Isaacs AN, Srinivasan K, Neerakkal I, et al. Initiating a community mental health programme in rural Karnataka. Indian Journal of Community Medicine. 2006;31(2):86- 87.

Srinivasan K, Isaacs A., Thomas T, et al. Outcomes of Common Mental Disorders in Southern Rural India. Indian Journal of Social Psychiatry. 2006; 22(3-4):110-115

Srinivasan TN, Rajkumar S, Padmavathi R. Initiating Care for Untreated Schizophrenia Patients and Results of One Year Follow Up. International Journal of Social Psychiatry. 2001;47(2):73-80

Padmavathi R, Rajkumar S, Srinivasan TN. Schizophrenic patients who were never treated – a study in an Indian urban community. Psychological Medicine. 1998; 28:1113-1117

Moussavi S. Chatterji S, Verdes E, et al. Depression, chronic diseases and decrements in health: results from the World Health Surveys. The Lancet. 2007;370:851-858

Thornicroft G, Tansella M. Components of a modern mental health service: A pragmatic balance of community and hospital care. Overview of systematic evidence. BJP. 2004;185:283-290.

Mathers CD, Loncar D. Projections of Global Mortality and Burden of Disease from 2002 to 2030. PLOS Medicine. 2006; 3(11):2011-2030.


Aaron R, Joseph A, Abraham S, et al. Suicides in young people in rural southern India. The Lancet. 2004;363:1117-1118.

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