the slides talk about the mental health condition in africa, apart from institutional setting what are other sources how govt and had took initiatives and how far it has reached to cater the mental health needs of the people living in the community.

1. Community Mental Health
in Context to Africa
BY
Abhijit Pathak
R2014SWMH004

3. What is Community Mental Health?
• Deinstitutionalized Setup.
• Care provided by Community workers trained by mental health
professionals and family member.
• Lessening of load of institutions and cost effective way of treating
patients.
• Helps in removing stigma within the community while making patient
to dwell in the community.

4. Community Mental Health Team

6. Their Functions:-
• Boost self confidence.
• Look for solving emerging psychiatric issue.
• Resolve any emotional problem.
• Restore social support.
• Look for employment.
• Support to the family members.
• Removes stigma.

7. Community mental health in Africa- current scenario
Traditional Healer
Faith Healer
Extended Family System

8. INQUISTIVE INDEED??

9. Answer-
Pioneer in clubbing the
Traditional Healers to
institutionalized setting
called ARO MODEL in
1954.

10. OTHER INITIATIVES
• Integration of mental health services with
primary health care started in between 1970 to
1980s. Pioneer countries were Sudan & Kenya.
• Rest of the countries who followed the pattern
were Nigeria, Ethiopia, Uganda, Botswana,
Senegal, South Africa & Tunisia.

11. CURRENT SCENARIO
• Uneven bed ratio.
• Interrupted and inadequate supply of funds.
• Few general practitioners with training of Psychiatry are operating in
PHCs.
• Shortage of psychotropic drugs.
• Few training institutes.
• In short inadequate manpower.
• (World Health Organization, Regional Office of the Eastern
Mediterranean (EMRO), 2015).