Improving Access to Mental Health Care and Psychosocial Support within a Fragile Context: A Case Study from Afghanistan

Peter Ventevogel, Willem van de Put, Hafizullah Faiz, B. van Mierlo, M. Habib Siddiqi, Ivan H. Komproe

PLoS Medicine · 2012 · 104 citations · 17 references

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As one article in a series on Global Mental Health Practice, Peter Ventevogel and colleagues provide a case study of their efforts to integrate brief, practice-oriented mental health training into the Afghanistan health care system at a time when the system was being rebuilt from scratch.

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