The development of mental health services within primary care in India: learning from oral history

International Journal of Mental Health Systems

Virginia Berridge³  Vikram Patel²  Sanjeev Jain¹  Nadja van Ginneken² 

[1] National Institute for Mental Health and NeuroSciences, Bangalore, India;Sangath, Porvorim, Goa, India;Centre for History in Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK

关键词: Health workers;    Primary health care;    Health planning;    Health policy;    Developing countries;    India;    History;    Mental health;   

Others  :  1139357
DOI  :  10.1186/1752-4458-8-30

 received in 2014-03-15, accepted in 2014-07-10,  发布年份 2014

【 摘 要 】

Background

In India very few of those who need mental health care receive it, despite efforts of the 1982 National Mental Health Programme and its district-level component the District Mental Health Programme (DMHP) to improve mental health care coverage.

Aims

To explore and unpack the political, cultural and other historical reasons for the DMHP’s failures and successes since 1947 (post-independence era), which may highlight issues for today’s current primary mental health care policy and programme.

Methods

Oral history interviews and documentary sourcing were conducted in 2010–11 with policy makers, programme managers and observers who had been active in the creation of the NMHP and DMHP.

Results

The results suggest that the widely held perception that the DMHP has failed is not entirely justified, insofar that major hurdles to the implementation of the plan have impacted on mental health coverage in primary care, rather than faults with the plan itself. These hurdles have been political neglect, inadequate leadership at central, state and district levels, inaccessible funding and improperly implemented delivery of services (including poor training, motivation and retention of staff) at district and community levels.

Conclusion

At this important juncture as the 12th Five Year Plan is in preparation, this historical paper suggests that though the model may be improved, the most important changes would be to encourage central and state governments to implement better technical support, access to funds and to rethink the programme leadership at national, state and district levels.

【 授权许可】

   
2014 van Ginneken et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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