Improving mental health and wellbeing of communities in the modern world: New approaches

Abstract

Services for people with mental disorders in the communities around the world remain less than satisfactory. This service gap can be reduced by enhancing skowledge and skills of frontline health workers in detection and managing mental ill-health of the people they serve. GMHAT/PC tool and training package, as outlined in the article, if used by primary care health workers, can be a way forward to implement community mental health programs.