Mental Health without borders. Strenthening of mental health services capacity in the US-Mexico border
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2017Metadata
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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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Category of PAHO Strategic Plan 2014-2019
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