BACKGROUND Nepal is experiencing a significant 'treatment gap' in mental health care. People with mental disorders do not always receive appropriate treatment due to a range of structural and individual issues, including stigma and poverty. The PRIME (Programme for Improving Mental Health Care) programme has developed a mental health care plan to address this issue in Nepal and four other low a...

The World Health Assembly, which met in May 2013, adopted a new global programme document entitled ‘Universal eye health: a global action plan 2014–2019’. The World Health Assembly is attended by ministerial delegations of all World Health Organization (WHO) Member States every year, and is where issues of major global public health importance are discussed. The global programme document was fi...

National University of Singapore, Singapore *correspondence: Kua Ee Heok; Mailing address: Kent Ridge Road, NUHS Tower Block, Level 9, Singapore; Postcode: 119228; E-Mail: [email protected] It is an enormous challenge to plan the mental health needs of China. Professor Wang [1] and Professor Xie [2] have outlined broad strategies focusing on clinical services and the shortage of mental health p...

of the popular press, and the laconic voice of Reitman. While the study is in many respects-thorough and detailed, it also leaves us with unanswered questions. The Chicago programme was part of a national initiative; yet, although we might be expected to know something of Parran's five-point plan, we are given no clear analysis of the relationship of the local programme to federal aims. The sto...

This paper describes an action learning approach designed to assist a group of middle managers in an Australian public sector environment by enhancing their performance in the area of managing staff. The programme is described as an embedded action learning approach, where, in addition to a specific action learning project, the programme provided action learning skills development, mentoring su...

A novel programme of intervention - brief inpatient family intervention - was formulated to impart the training skills to the parents of mentally retarded children to optimise the development of their retarded child. During the period of this study. 106 mentally retarded children with different socio-demographic backgrounds and degrees of handicap participated in this programme, with encouragin...

This chapter presents the Capability Maturity Model Fast-track Toolkit (CMMFT) programme which aims to provide a faster and cheaper method of obtaining Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) capability with the end goals of increasing quality of software products and gaining competitive advantage as software development practices are recognised internationally. The programme is specifical...

The emergence of drug resistance in leprosy is a major hurdle in leprosy elimination programme. Although the problem of drug resistance is presently not acute, it is important that we collect data more systematically and monitor the trend carefully so that effective measures to combat this problem can be developed. The present study aimed at the explication of cross resistance of rifabutin and ...