Tag Archives: LMICs

My 13 takeaways of the 3rd Malawi Mental Health Research and Practice Development Conference

April 27, 2013 – 10:19 am

The conference: This 3rd annual Malawi Mental Health Research and Practice Conference took place on 22-23 April 2013 at the Saint John of God College of Health Sciences in Mzuzu, Northern Malawi. The event was organized by the St. John of God College, the Department of Mental Health College of Medicine Malawi University, and the Scotland-Malawi Mental Health Education Project (SMMHEP). Continue reading →

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More then 30 Mental Health and MHPSS Manuals for Non-Specialized Settings

April 16, 2013 – 12:10 pm

Attention: Due to time constraints, I was forced to stop updating this list by the end of 2016. The information will be outdated soon. Sorry, I hope you will find your information elsewhere on the internet.

In low resource settings general health workers and lay people will provide a large part of the mental health care. This list starts with a couple of links to free downloads and (not free) hard copies of interventions/program manuals for general mental health care. Then a few in the MHPSS field (Mental Health and Psycho-Social Support). And the last few manuals are focused on care for children. Continue reading →

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The 20 Golden Tips from the GETHealth Summit NYC February 2013

February 8, 2013 – 4:54 pm

The GETHealth Summit (Global Education and Technology Health), 6-7 February 2013 in the United Nations, New York City, aimed ‘to bridge the health workforce gap in developing countries through new partnerships between innovators in Global Health Education and Information picGEThealthSummit2Technology. The Summit brought together leaders in health, education and IT to discuss and develop initiatives designed to empower providers in the most resource-limited communities in the world’. It were very inspiring and entertaining days: About 150 optimistic and dedicated people from around the World, a bulk of knowledge and experience and plenty of successes and recommendations (and a few failures).

I would like to bring across the main messages from this summit in ’20 golden tips’: Continue reading →

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A wake up SMS for Global Mental Health: mhealth in 40 short videos

May 7, 2012 – 2:12 pm

What’s mobile health, text messages for life, text for change, Ushahidi, FrontlineSMS, Epysurveyor, M-Pesa? How does a SMS-computer interface work? How to send bulk messages, an automatic response SMS? And what do SMS polls and quizzes look like?
And what’s this got to do with Global Mental Health? Continue reading →

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Still waiting for the wedding! 10 good reasons for a marriage between Global Mental Health and the New Technologies

November 26, 2011 – 1:01 pm

Introduction:
Although the developments in the new technologies (or ICT, information and communication technology) are leapfrogging and even difficult to keep up, the implementations of ICT in the global mental health sector seem still crawling. Continue reading →

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My 10 picks today: 2nd Summit of the Movement for Global Mental Health:

October 17, 2011 – 11:56 pm

With more then 100 others I attended today, 17 October 2011, this one day summit in Cape Town, South Africa. Although I missed the very first part of the day (due to waiting cue for the registration) and the very last part (due to the desire to do some groceries before shops were closed), I followed all the other 25 presentations and 6 plenary discussions. Continue reading →

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Can eLearning boost the Mental Health capacity in low income countries?

April 21, 2011 – 4:08 pm

More then 239.000 extra mental health workers are needed in the South and only 54,5% of the low income countries have psychiatric training facilities! How to fill this gap?
In this article possible eLearning applications in 4 mental health capacity areas in low income countries are investigated. With figures, examples and links the current state of art will be presented. A conclusion will be given (‘Yes, it can’) as well as recommendations for the future.
Discussions, comments and additions are very welcome! Continue reading →

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