Putting Evidence into Practice The PLoS Medicine Series on Global Mental Health Practice 英文参考文献.docVIP

Editorial PuttingEvidenceintoPractice:ThePLoSMedicineSeries onGlobalMentalHealthPractice VikramPatel1,2,RachelJenkins3,CrickLund4, thePLoSMedicineEditors* 1Faculty ofEpidemiologyandPopulationHealth, London School ofHygiene TropicalMedicine, London, United Kingdom, 2Sangath, Goa,India, 3Departments of EpidemiologyandInternationalMentalHealthPolicy,WHOCollaboratingCentre,KingsCollegeLondon,InstituteofPsychiatry,London,UnitedKingdom,4Centrefor PublicMentalHealth,DepartmentofPsychiatryandMentalHealth,UniversityofCapeTown,CapeTown,SouthAfrica Today we are delighted to announce the launch of the PLoS Medicine series on Global Mental Health Practice, and to issue a call for case studies that can help studies provide useful evidence, which should be disseminated widely so they can influence practice development. In particular, we are interested in interven- tions that are innovative and delivered in low-resourcesettings wherethetreatment gap is often largest. The series addresses the need for greater awareness of global mental health in practice, and builds on PLoS Medicine’s interest and leadership in globalmentalhealth[3–6]. acceptability. Second, Peter Ventevogel and colleagues report on their efforts to integrate mental health into the health care system in Afghanistan while the system was being rebuilt from scratch [8].Brief,practice-orientedmentalhealth training for basic health care workers provided the opportunity to substantially increasedemandforandaccesstomental healthcareservices,buttheauthorsreport this opportunity also demonstrated the need for concurrent community-based approaches, capacity building, and policy developmentinthehealthcaresystem. broaden our understanding of global mentalhealthin‘‘real-life’’contexts. The series was initiated by the lead author (VP), who is joined by two other leaders in global mental health (RP and CL) to serve as guest editors. Together, they bring an international, broad, and multidisciplinary perspective that