Mental health capacity building in low and middle income countries: the Emerald Programme

摘要

This is a time of unprecedented interest in the field of global mental health. Since the WHO World Mental Health Report of 2001 (World Health Organization, ) there has been an accelerating tempo of evidence and initiatives. These show an appreciation of the scale of the mental health gap across all of the world (Wang ; Thornicroft ), and demonstrate the strengthening evidence base of effective interventions to treat people with mental illnesses in low and middle income countries (LMICs) (Patel & Thornicroft, ; Patel ; Petersen ; World Health Organisation., ).