A renewed agenda for global mental health.

摘要

4 years ago, The Lancet published a Series of articles highlighting the global health crisis due to an astonishingly large treatment gap: up to nine of ten people with a mental health problem do not receive even basic care in some countries. The Series showed that this gap was not due to insufficient evidence about the effect of mental health problems or their effective treatment, but to a range of barriers operating at all levels of the health system, from global policies through to local health-care provision. The Series ended with a call to action to scale up services for people with mental health problems, especially in low-income and middle-income countries where the gaps are the largest, and where some of the most serious human rights abuses against affected people are perpetrated.1 4 years on, we take stock of what proqress has been made.