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Mental health law in the community: thinking about AfricaPeter Bartlett
School of Law and Institute of Mental Health, University of Nottingham, NG7 2RD, Nottingham, UK
Int J Ment Health Syst 5:21. 2011..This article considers implementation of this approach in Africa...- Developing and implementing mental health policy in Zanzibar, a low income country off the coast of East AfricaRachel Jenkins
Department of Health Services and Population Research, King s College London, Institute of Psychiatry, David Goldberg Centre, De Crespigny Park, London, UK
Int J Ment Health Syst 5:6. 2011..abstract:.. - Common mental disorders and risk factors in urban TanzaniaRachel Jenkins
WHO Collaborating Centre Mental Health, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London, UK
Int J Environ Res Public Health 7:2543-58. 2010..Significantly higher rates were found among those who had experienced more than three severe life events in the last six months and relationship difficulties and death of a loved one... - Mental health care reforms in Europe: Rehabilitation and social inclusion of people with mental illness in RussiaRachel Jenkins
Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, P O 35, David Goldberg Building, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, United Kingdom
Psychiatr Serv 61:222-4. 2010..Links with local employment services are weak. To promote social inclusion, steps must be taken to encourage and facilitate cooperation and collaboration between the MSECs, employment services, and medical services... - Mental health policy in Kenya -an integrated approach to scaling up equitable care for poor populationsDavid Kiima
Department of Health Services and Population Research Department, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London, De Crespigny Park, London, SE5 8AF, UK
Int J Ment Health Syst 4:19. 2010..This project sought to meet these challenges, aiming to introduce sustainable mental health policy and implementation across the country, within the context of extremely scarce resources... - Mental health policy and development in Egypt - integrating mental health into health sector reforms 2001-9Rachel Jenkins
Department of Health Services and Population Research, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London, De Crespigny Park, London, UK
Int J Ment Health Syst 4:17. 2010..This paper describes the aims, methodology and implementation of the mental health reforms and mental health policy in Egypt 2002-2009... - Mental health and the development agenda in Sub-Saharan AfricaRachel Jenkins
Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, P O 35, David Goldberg Building, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, United Kingdom
Psychiatr Serv 61:229-34. 2010..In summary, partnerships, underpinned by collaborative training, research, and mutual dialogue with other health and nonhealth sectors, are needed... - Predictors of mental health service utilization in the 12 months before imprisonment: analysis of results from a national prisons surveyMichael Farrell
Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London, London, UK
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 40:548-53. 2006..To describe the self-reported history of health service utilization and help-seeking to those who are drug-dependent in the period of time prior to imprisonment... - Prevalence of psychotic symptoms and their risk factors in urban TanzaniaRachel Jenkins
WHO Collaborating Centre Mental Health, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London, UK
Int J Environ Res Public Health 7:2514-25. 2010..Significantly higher rates of symptoms were found in those who had recently experienced two or more stressful life events, those with CMD and people who had used cannabis in the preceding year... - Diabetes, common mental disorders, and disability: findings from the UK National Psychiatric Morbidity SurveyJayati Das-Munshi
Section of Epidemiology, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, London, UK
Psychosom Med 69:543-50. 2007.... - Public health significance of mixed anxiety and depression: beyond current classificationJayati Das-Munshi
Section of Epidemiology, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, UK
Br J Psychiatry 192:171-7. 2008..The public health significance of mixed anxiety-depressive disorder (MADD) and the distinctiveness of its phenomenology have yet to be established... - The treatment of Common Mental Disorders across age groups: results from the 2007 Adult Psychiatric Morbidity SurveyClaudia Cooper
UCL Department of Mental Health Sciences Bloomsbury Campus, 2nd Floor, Charles Bell House, London, UK
J Affect Disord 127:96-101. 2010..We investigated for the first time in a national survey whether older people were less likely than younger adults with the same symptom severity to receive treatment for Common Mental Disorders (CMD)... - Mental health reform in the Russian Federation: an integrated approach to achieve social inclusion and recoveryRachel Jenkins
Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London, London, England
Bull World Health Organ 85:858-66. 2007..To facilitate mental health reform in one Russian oblast (region) using systematic approaches to policy design and implementation... - Violence and psychiatric morbidity in a national household population--a report from the British Household SurveyJeremy Coid
Forensic Psychiatry Research Unit, Queen Mary College, University of London, London, United Kingdom
Am J Epidemiol 164:1199-208. 2006..Despite public concern, the risks of violence from persons with severe mental illness were very low... - Obsessive-compulsive disorder: prevalence, comorbidity, impact, and help-seeking in the British National Psychiatric Morbidity Survey of 2000Albina R Torres
Division of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, UK
Am J Psychiatry 163:1978-85. 2006..The authors aimed to establish obsessive-compulsive disorder prevalence and its clinical typology among adults in private households in Great Britain and to obtain generalizable estimates of impairment and help-seeking... - Personality disorder and cardiovascular disease: results from a national household surveyPaul Moran
Health Services Research Department, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London, De Crespigny Park, London, United Kingdom
J Clin Psychiatry 68:69-74. 2007..Little is known about the physical health of personality-disordered people. This study investigated associations between personality disorder and cardiovascular disease in a large, nationally representative sample from Great Britain... - Age variation in life events and their relationship with common mental disorders in a national survey populationVesna Jordanova
Health Service and Population Research Dept, King s College London, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 42:611-6. 2007..Life events (LEs) are recognised to be important risk factors for common mental disorders (CMD). Their prominence may vary across age groups but this issue has received little systematic investigation... - Insomnia comorbidity and impact and hypnotic use by age group in a national survey population aged 16 to 74 yearsRobert Stewart
King s College London, Institute of Psychiatry, UK
Sleep 29:1391-7. 2006..To compare age-group differences in somatic/psychiatric comorbidity, impact, and pharmacotherapy associated with sleep disturbance across a broad adult age range... - Psychiatric and social aspects of suicidal behaviour in prisonsRachel Jenkins
WHO Collaborating Centre, David Goldberg Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Denmark Hill, London
Psychol Med 35:257-69. 2005..Suicidal behaviour and completed suicide are serious problems within British prisons, leading to significant morbidity and mortality, and are the focus of major efforts towards their prevention... - Obsessive-compulsive disorder and personality disorder: evidence from the British National Survey of Psychiatric Morbidity 2000Albina R Torres
Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, Botucatu Medical School, UNESP, Botucatu, Brazil, and Department of Forensic Psychiatry, St Bartholomew s Hospital, London, UK
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 41:862-7. 2006..We analysed the prevalence of screen positive personality disorder in a representative sample of adults with OCD living in private households in the UK... - Health of national service veterans: an analysis of a community-based sample using data from the 2007 Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey of EnglandCharlotte Woodhead
Academic Centre for Defence Mental Health, Weston Education Centre, King s College London, Cutcombe Rd, London SE5 9RJ, UK
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 46:559-66. 2011..The compulsory nature of national service sets these veterans apart from younger veterans... - Persecutory ideation and insomnia: findings from the second British National Survey of Psychiatric MorbidityDaniel Freeman
King s College London, Department of Psychology, PO Box 077, Institute of Psychiatry, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AF, UK
J Psychiatr Res 44:1021-6. 2010..Longitudinal studies of insomnia and paranoia, and tests of the effects of sleep interventions on levels of paranoia, are now required to examine causality... - The mental health country profile: background, design and use of a systematic method of appraisalRachel Jenkins
Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London and London School of Hygiene, London, UK
Int Rev Psychiatry 16:31-47. 2004..Lastly, it is designed to be a capacity building tool for local stakeholders to enhance situation appraisal, and multisectorial policy development and implementation... - The meaning of reporting forgetfulness: a cross-sectional study of adults in the English 2007 Adult Psychiatric Morbidity SurveyClaudia Cooper
Department of Mental Health Sciences, UCL, London, UK
Age Ageing 40:711-7. 2011..Age is the strongest risk factor for dementia and SMI may be a precursor of objective cognitive impairment. We therefore hypothesised that SMI prevalence would rise with age in a non-demented population... - Income-related inequality in mental health in Britain: the concentration index approachRoshni Mangalore
Personal Social Services Research Unit, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK
Psychol Med 37:1037-45. 2007..We aimed to measure income-related inequality in the distribution of psychiatric disorders and to compare with inequality in other health domains... - Knowledge and practice of help-seeking for treatment of mental disorders in Pemba Island, ZanzibarIlyas Mirza
WHO Collaborating Centre for Mental Health, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
Trop Doct 36:140-4. 2006..This provides evidence that there is considerable reliance on traditional care for the treatment of mental disorders. It is therefore important for the health services to be in dialogue with the traditional healers... - Eliciting explanatory models of common mental disorders using the Short Explanatory Model Interview (SEMI) Urdu adaptation--a pilot studyIlyas Mirza
Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London
J Pak Med Assoc 56:461-3. 2006.... - Primary mental health care in rural Punjab, Pakistan: providers, and user perspectives of the effectiveness of treatmentsIlyas Mirza
Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
Soc Sci Med 63:593-7. 2006..Further work should include improving mental health literacy with special reference to treatments available for mental health problems... - Classification in primary care: experience with current diagnostic systemsRachel Jenkins
Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
Psychopathology 35:127-31. 2002..The results of field trials with ICD-10-PHC are summarised here along with recommendations to make classifications and information systems more helpful to upgrade primary care of mental disorders around the world... - International migration of doctors, and its impact on availability of psychiatrists in low and middle income countriesRachel Jenkins
Health Services and Population Research Department, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, London, United Kingdom
PLoS ONE 5:e9049. 2010..We sought to explore the extent of psychiatric migration... - Addressing suicide as a public-health problemRachel Jenkins
WHO Collaborating Centre, Mental Health Research and Training, Institute of Psychiatry, London SE5 8AF, UK
Lancet 359:813-4. 2002 - Prevalence and correlates of self-reported psychotic symptoms in the British populationLouise C Johns
Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, UK
Br J Psychiatry 185:298-305. 2004..The psychosis phenotype is generally thought of as a categorical entity. However, there is increasing evidence that psychosis exists in the population as a continuum of severity rather than an all-or-none phenomenon... - Integration of mental health into primary care in KenyaRachel Jenkins
WHO Collaborating Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College, London, UK
World Psychiatry 9:118-20. 2010..The project experience may be useful for other countries also wishing to conduct similar sustainable training and supervision programmes... - Public-academic partnerships: Improving human resource provision for mental health in SomalilandRebecca J Syed Sheriff
Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, De Crespigny Park, London, United Kingdom, SE5 8AF
Psychiatr Serv 61:225-7. 2010..The authors describe how careful planning has permitted the collaboration to evolve to allow mental health services to become embedded into activities that strengthen the Somaliland health sector...