Taluk Mental Health Program: The new kid on the block?

Autor: Manjunatha N; Department of Psychiatry, Government of Karnataka, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India., Kumar CN; Department of Psychiatry, Government of Karnataka, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India., Chander KR; Department of Psychiatry, Government of Karnataka, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India., Sadh K; Department of Psychiatry, Government of Karnataka, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India., Gowda GS; Department of Psychiatry, Government of Karnataka, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India., Vinay B; Department of Psychiatry, Government of Karnataka, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India., Shashidhara HN; Department of Psychiatry, Government of Karnataka, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India., Parthasarathy R; Department of Health and Family Welfare Service, Government of Karnataka, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India., Rao GN; Department of Epidemiology, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India., Math SB; Department of Psychiatry, Government of Karnataka, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India., Thirthalli J; Department of Psychiatry, Government of Karnataka, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Indian journal of psychiatry [Indian J Psychiatry] 2019 Nov-Dec; Vol. 61 (6), pp. 635-639.
DOI: 10.4103/psychiatry.IndianJPsychiatry_343_19
Abstrakt: This article highlights the platform and framework for the new public mental health initiative, the Taluk Mental Health Program (TMHP), rolled out by the Government of India, as part of the expansion of the District Mental Health Program. In this initial phase, TMHP has been approved for ten taluks of Karnataka state. In the authors' collective opinion, few of the initiatives in the country could be considered as foundations for conceptualizing the TMHP (a) research programs and projects in the community, (b) community intervention programs running in two taluks of Karnataka since the past one and a half decade (Thirthahalli and Turuvekere taluks of Karnataka), and the (c) Primary Care Psychiatry Program of National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences. The article briefly describes the above initiatives and ends with further suggestions to scale up TMHP.
Competing Interests: There are no conflicts of interest.
(Copyright: © 2019 Indian Journal of Psychiatry.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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