Atlas CHILD AND ADOLESCENT MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES GLOBAL CONCERNS : IMPLICATIONS FOR THE FUTURE doc

Atlas

C H I L D A N D A D O L E S C E N T

M E N T A L H E A L T H R E S O U R C E S

G L O B A L C O N C E R N S :

I M P L I C A T I O N S F O R T H E F U T U R E

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World Psychiatric

Association

International Association for

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

and Allied Professions

WHO Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

World Health Organization.

Atlas: child and adolescent mental health resources:

global concerns, implications for the future.

1.Mental health services – statistics 2.Child health services – statistics 3.Adolescent health

services – statistics 4.Health resources – statistics 5 Health care surveys 6.Atlases

I.World Psychiatric Association. Presidential Global Programme on Child and Adolescent

Mental Health II.International Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health and

Allied Professions III.Title IV.Title: Child and adolescent mental health atlas

ISBN 92 4 156304 4 (NLM classification: WM 30)

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CONTENTS

Foreword 4

Preface 5

Acknowledgements 6

Introduction 7

Methods and limitations 9

Rights of the child and adolescent 12

Policy and programmes 13

Information systems 15

Need for services 16

Service system gaps 17

Integration of services 18

Barriers to care 20

Care providers 21

Training for care 22

Financing of care 24

Availability and use of medication 25

The future 26

References 28

Appendices 29

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