creators_name: Pai, Nagesh Brahmavar
creators_id: Nagesh@uow.edu.au
editors_name: Kakkilaya, Srinivas
editors_id: Kakkilaya BS
type: journale
datestamp: 2014-02-25 12:42:14
lastmod: 2014-02-25 12:42:14
metadata_visibility: show
title: Psychiatry: Whither to?
ispublished: pub
subjects: OJHAS
full_text_status: public
keywords: Primary care; Mental health; India
abstract: Increasing division of specialisation in modern medicine has specifically unwrapped the issues of challenges of mental health. This article highlights the importance of primary care mental health, problems of awareness and under detection. Finally, challenges in the current status of mental health are highlighted.
date: 2013-08-25
date_type: published
publication: Online Journal of Health and Allied Sciences
volume: 12
number: 2(14)
publisher: Kakkilaya BS
refereed: TRUE
referencetext: 1.	Goldberg DP, Huxley PJ. Common mental disorders. A biosocial model. London: Routledge, 1992.
2.	World Health Organisation. Atlas: country profiles on mental health resources. Geneva: World Health Organisation, 2001.
3.	Hirschfield R et al. The National Depressive and Manic-Depressive Association Consensus Statement on the undertreatment of depression. Journal of the American Medical Association. 1997;277:333–340.
4.	Üstün TB, Sartorius N (eds.). Mental illness in general health care: an international study. Chichester,Wiley, 1995.
5.	Sareen J et al. Perceived barriers to mental health service utilization in the United States, Ontario,and the Netherlands. Psychiatric Services. 2007;58:357–364.
6.	Mechanic D. Barriers to help-seeking, detection, and adequate treatment for anxiety and mood disorders: implications for health care policy. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. 2007;68(Suppl.2):20–26.
7.	Rubin EH, Zorumski CF. Psychiatric education in an era of rapidly occurring scientific advances. Acad Med 2003;78(4):351-354.
citation:   Pai, Nagesh Brahmavar  (2013) Psychiatry: Whither to?  [Journal (On-line/Unpaginated)]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/9162/1/2013-2-14.pdf