Most of the global population live in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs),
which have historically received a small fraction of global resources for mental health. The …

Executive summary The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represent an exponential
advance from the Millennium Development Goals, with a substantially broader agenda …

The inclusion of mental health in the Sustainable Development Goals represents a global
commitment to include mental health among the highest health and development priorities …

This article discusses the provision of mental health services in low-and middle-income
countries (LMICs) with a view to understanding the cultural dynamics–how the challenges …

Background There is a large treatment gap for common mental disorders (CMD), with wide
variation by world region. This review identifies factors associated with formal health service …

Background: Since the introduction of specified diagnostic criteria for mental disorders in the
1970s, there has been a rapid expansion in the number of large-scale mental health surveys …

Purpose Rural areas persistently face a shortage of mental health specialists. Task shifting,
or task sharing, is an approach in global mental health that may help address unmet mental …

Background: Protracted armed conflicts not only shape political, legal, and socio-economic
structures, but also have a lasting impact on people's human migration. In 2017, the United …

Background This Commission addresses several priority areas for psychiatry over the next
decade, and into the 21st century. These represent challenges and opportunities for the …

Crick Lund and colleagues describe their plans for the PRogramme for Improving Mental
health carE (PRIME), which aims to generate evidence on implementing and scaling up …