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Mental Health without borders. Strenthening of mental health services capacity in the US-Mexico border

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2017
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Pan American Health Organization
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Abstract
This brochure highlights an initiative implemented from 2014 to 2017 on the US/Mexico border to address high rates of untreated mental health problems in settings with limited resources by training primary health care professionals and community health workers. This promising cost-effective project used the WHO’s Mental Health Action Programme to build primary health care professionals’ capacity to treat mental disorders.
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Mental Health; Noncommunicable Diseases; Mental Health Services; United States; Border Areas; Mexico
Category of PAHO Strategic Plan 2014-2019
Cat 2. Noncommunicable Diseases and Risk Factors
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https://iris.paho.org/handle/10665.2/53837
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