Health system challenges and solutions to improving mental health outcomes.

Abstract

This is the fourth paper in our series of four articles on mental health and the global development agenda. The first paper addressed core conceptual issues in mental health,1 the second addressed social and economic challenges to getting mental health on the global agenda,2 the third addressed international and national policy challenges to developing and implementing mental health policy in countries3 and this fourth paper addresses health system challenges to the development and implementation of mental health policy.