Michael G Madianos
Michael G Madianos
Psychiatric care in Greece has a long history of traditional in-patient treatment in large public institutions (the public asylum period), which lasted until 1983. European Economic Community (EEC) intervention in 1984 marked a transitional...
Medical record abstraction in a hospital with paper-based records: experience of early career psychiatrists in northern Borneo [0.03%]
婆罗洲北部公立医院使用纸质病历的医疗记录提取：早期职业精神科医生的经验
Farah Ahmad Shahabuddin,Kheng Yee Wah,Ryna Imma Buji et al.
Farah Ahmad Shahabuddin et al.
We used medical record abstraction to conduct research in a psychiatric hospital with paper-based medical records. The challenges we encountered included: the difficulty in retrieving files; the extensive effort and time needed to extract c...
David Skuse
David Skuse
This editorial introduces three papers in BJPsych International on community mental healthcare in the diverse cultures of Greece, Cambodia and Malawi. ...
Closing the gap between training needs and training provision in addiction medicine [0.03%]
缩小成瘾医学领域需求与供给之间差距的研究报告
Sidharth Arya,Mirjana Delic,Blanca Iciar Indave Ruiz et al.
Sidharth Arya et al.
Substance use disorders pose a significant global social and economic burden. Although effective interventions exist, treatment coverage remains limited. The lack of an adequately trained workforce is one of the prominent reasons. Recent in...
Halilu Abdullahi,Jonathan Wilson
Halilu Abdullahi
Dr Abdullahi was a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists' Medical Training Initiative (MTI) scheme at Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, East Anglia, between 2015 and 2017. He has adopted a comparative approach to share some s...
Mental health in Malawi [0.03%]
马拉维的卫生问题
Philippa Lilford
Philippa Lilford
This is a reflective essay about the time I spent volunteering in mental healthcare in Malawi, prior to commencing my psychiatry training. The burden of illness I saw was enormous and the resources very limited; however, I describe some par...
Volunteering in a mental health service in Uganda: challenges and rewards [0.03%]
在乌干达心理健康机构做志愿者：挑战与收获
Fiona Martin
Fiona Martin
Fiona Martin is a psychiatry trainee who spent 6 months volunteering in a mental health service in Uganda between her core and higher psychiatry training. In this article, she reflects upon this experience, including the challenges and rewa...
Gender disparity as a threat to the mental well-being of young Sri Lankan women [0.03%]
性别差距对年轻斯里兰卡女性心理健康的影响威胁
Miyuru Chandradasa,Layani Champika Rathnayake
Miyuru Chandradasa
Sri Lanka ranks highest in the region for human development. Despite producing the first female head of state in the world, the country has failed to achieve substantial gains in the gender inequality indices in the past decade. In recent y...
Michael King
Michael King
The history of psychiatry and homosexuality illuminates how stigma develops in the professions, how it is linked to cultural values and religious attitudes and how it affects patients. Homosexuality was medicalised as a disorder in the late...