Qatar Community Mental Health Care: Achievements and Challenges
Guided by international best practice and evidence-based medicine, the Qatar mental health service has undergone a major transformation in the last two decades, replacing the institution-based service with an accessible multidisciplinary community-based service. In this paper, we provide a brief...
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| description | Guided by international best practice and evidence-based medicine, the Qatar mental health service has undergone a major transformation in the last two decades, replacing the institution-based service with an accessible multidisciplinary community-based service.
In this paper, we provide a brief historical background to mental health services in Qatar, and the progress and development towards community-based mental health-care provision.
We also explore the challenges facing this new model of care in Qatar including social and cultural sensitivities, and the various solutions adopted to overcome these challenges.
We outline the comprehensive plans envisaged to further develop Qatar community mental health services, including the provision of accessible, integrated and multimodal mental health care within primary care settings. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-31359115c7924b7196e92948b473424d2022-12-21T23:10:30ZengEco-VectorConsortium Psychiatricum2712-76722713-29192021-05-0122768010.17816/CP7838Qatar Community Mental Health Care: Achievements and ChallengesMohamed Ali Ahmed0Suhaila Ali Ghuloum1Mental Health Services, Hamad Medical CorporationMental Health Services, Hamad Medical CorporationGuided by international best practice and evidence-based medicine, the Qatar mental health service has undergone a major transformation in the last two decades, replacing the institution-based service with an accessible multidisciplinary community-based service. In this paper, we provide a brief historical background to mental health services in Qatar, and the progress and development towards community-based mental health-care provision. We also explore the challenges facing this new model of care in Qatar including social and cultural sensitivities, and the various solutions adopted to overcome these challenges. We outline the comprehensive plans envisaged to further develop Qatar community mental health services, including the provision of accessible, integrated and multimodal mental health care within primary care settings.https://consortium-psy.com/jour/article/viewFile/78/44community mental health carepsychiatric servicesqatarprimary mental health careassertive outreach mental health team |
| spellingShingle | Mohamed Ali Ahmed Suhaila Ali Ghuloum Qatar Community Mental Health Care: Achievements and Challenges Consortium Psychiatricum community mental health care psychiatric services qatar primary mental health care assertive outreach mental health team |
| title | Qatar Community Mental Health Care: Achievements and Challenges |
| title_full | Qatar Community Mental Health Care: Achievements and Challenges |
| title_fullStr | Qatar Community Mental Health Care: Achievements and Challenges |
| title_full_unstemmed | Qatar Community Mental Health Care: Achievements and Challenges |
| title_short | Qatar Community Mental Health Care: Achievements and Challenges |
| title_sort | qatar community mental health care achievements and challenges |
| topic | community mental health care psychiatric services qatar primary mental health care assertive outreach mental health team |
| url | https://consortium-psy.com/jour/article/viewFile/78/44 |
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