Asia
Countries in Central Asia are looking to Trieste for secrets to success in community-based reform of mental health care
In the 1970s, Trieste forever changed psychiatric care in Italy by closing its psychiatric hospital and moving to a community-based model of care that was entirely user-focused. Within a few years, the rest of the country followed suit. The city continued this history of innovation by hosting, for the first time, from October 17 to […]
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International Forum on Health Investments in Central Asia
Poland has recently implemented the WHO Mental Health Gaps Action Programme (mhGAP), an evidence-based approach to scaling up mental health care capacities and services, as part of its National Health Programme, taking a significant step towards better addressing the unmet mental health needs of its population. Poland has recently implemented the WHO Mental Health Gaps […]
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