Provision of mental health services in Nigeria.
Volume: 5
Issue: 2
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Abstract summary
Nigeria, like other African countries, is short of personnel trained in mental healthcare. Efforts to tackle the problem have often focused on increasing the numbers of psychiatrists and nurses in the field. These efforts, over the past 20 years, have not appeared to have greatly improved service delivery at the grass roots. Most of the specialist centres where such highly trained personnel work are in urban areas and for a large part of the population access to them is limited by distance and cost.Study Outcome
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Citations : Abiodun, O. A. (1993) A study of mental morbidity among primary care patients in Nigeria. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 34, 10–13.Authors : 5
Identifiers
Doi :SSN : 1749-3676