Scaling up mental health care and psychosocial support in low-resource settings: a roadmap to impact
Nov. 26, 2020
Mark Jordans & Brandon Kohrt
Despite global attention to mental health and psychosocial support services and a growing body of evidence-support interventions, few mental health services have been established at a regional or national scale in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). There are myriad challenges and barriers ranging from testing interventions that do not target priority needs of populations or policymakers to interventions that cannot achieve adequate coverage to decrease the treatment gap in LMIC. This study proposes a ‘roadmap to impact’ process that guides planning for interventions to move from the research space to the implementation space.