Technology-assisted task-sharing to bridge the treatment gap for childhood developmental disorders in rural Pakistan: an implementation science case study

Technology-assisted task-sharing to bridge the treatment gap for childhood developmental disorders in rural Pakistan: an implementation science case study

Abstract Background As in many low-income countries, the treatment gap for developmental disorders in Pakistan is nearly 100%. The World Health Organization (WHO) has developed the mental Health Gap Intervention guide (mhGAP-IG) to train non-specialists in the delivery of evidence-based mental healt...

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Main Authors: Syed Usman Hamdani, Zill-e- Huma, Lawrence S. Wissow
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2022-09-01
Series:Implementation Science Communications
Subjects:
Developmental disorders
WHO mhGAP
Technology-assisted task-shifting
Family volunteers
Low-resource settings
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s43058-022-00343-w

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