Post-COVID-19: can digital solutions lead to a more equitable global healthcare workforce? [0.03%]
后COVID-19时代：数字解决方案能使全球卫生人力配置更加公平吗？
Nagina Khan,Wolfgang Gilliar,J S Bamrah et al.
Nagina Khan et al.
An unintended consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the exponential growth of telemedicine, with automation of healthcare becoming more common. Face-to-face meetings and training events have been replaced relatively seamlessly with ...
Reflections on mental healthcare for an asylum seeker population caught in limbo on the Greek island of Samos [0.03%]
论希腊萨摩斯岛滞留的寻求庇护者群体的心理健康护理问题
Lindsay Solera-Deuchar
Lindsay Solera-Deuchar
A psychiatry trainee reflects on a period of work on the Greek island of Samos with the international medical non-governmental organisation Medécins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders, providing mental health and psychosocial support...
Why are we still living in the past? Sri Lanka needs urgent and timely reforms of its archaic mental health laws [0.03%]
为何我们仍生活在过去？斯里兰卡亟需及时改革过时的精神健康法律
Aruni Hapangama,Jayan Mendis,K A L A Kuruppuarachchi
Aruni Hapangama
Mental health legislation protects the rights of people with mental illnesses. However, despite major social, political and cultural changes, Sri Lankan mental health services still operate on laws enacted mostly during the British rule mor...
Perinatal mental health in Malaysia: understanding the treatment gap and recommendations for the future [0.03%]
马来西亚围产期精神健康：了解治疗缺口并提出未来建议
Shaeraine Raaj,Vijo Verghese,Myelone Tharmaseelan et al.
Shaeraine Raaj et al.
Maternal mental health problems are widespread worldwide, especially against the backdrop of population growth. There is an increasing prevalence of perinatal mental illness in low- and middle-income countries, and Malaysia is no exception....
Achievements and challenges in psychiatric education and training in Sri Lanka [0.03%]
斯里兰卡精神病学教育和培训的成就与挑战
Aruni Hapangama,K A L A Kuruppuarachchi,Raveen Hanwella
Aruni Hapangama
When compared with other Asian countries, psychiatric education and training in Sri Lanka has made significant developments during the past two decades, such as introducing psychiatry as a separate final year subject in the undergraduate me...
David Skuse
David Skuse
This month's issue of BJPsych International focuses on psychiatry in Sri Lanka, with articles on suggested improvements in education and training, the country's outdated legislation regarding involuntary psychiatric treatment, and the misus...
Mental health law in Nepal [0.03%]
尼泊尔的精神健康法律
Rakesh Singh,Seema Khadka
Rakesh Singh
During the past three decades Nepal has gone through series of reforms to address the mental health needs of the Nepalese population by promulgation of an exclusive National Mental Health Policy and related Strategic Action Plan. Small but ...
Rakesh Singh,Anoop Krishna Gupta,Babita Singh et al.
Rakesh Singh et al.
The history of psychiatry as a discipline in Nepal has been poorly studied. We have attempted to summarise historical landmarks to explore how it began and its evolution over time in relation to contemporary political events. Although Nepal...
Anja Malmendier-Muehlschlegel,Niamh Catherine Power
Anja Malmendier-Muehlschlegel
We describe mental health services in Luxembourg and how they have evolved over the past 50 years. Health services in Luxembourg are provided through a social health insurance-based system and mental health services are no exception. Additi...