tailieunhanh - Atlas: Nurses in Mental Health 2007 - World Health Organization

Mental health care is an essential but often forgotten component of health care. Nurses are core health-care providers and they need to be able to contribute effectively to mental health care. In reality, however, most low and middle income countries do not have adequate numbers of nurses, and the education and training of nurses in these countries provide little of the knowledge and skills necessary for good mental health care. The result is poor or no mental health care for those who need it. Atlas: Nurses in Mental Health 2007 presents results of a global survey on the availability, education, training and role of nurses in mental health care. The fi ndings of this. | AS SESI ilHEAf ỂỆỀ World Health Organization WHO Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Atlas nurses in mental health 2007. a project of WHO headquarters Geneva and the International Council of Nurses ICN . The project was initiated and supervised by Shekhar Saxena and coordinated by Thomas Barrett. --Project Team and Partners. nursing - statistics. - statistics. health services - manpower - statistics. . Shekhar. Thomas. Health Organization. Council of Nurses. Nurses in mental health atlas 2007. ISBN 978 92 4 156345 1 NLM classification WY 17 World Health Organization 2007 All rights reserved. Publications of the World Health Organization can be obtained from WHO Press World Health Organization 20 Avenue Appia 1211 Geneva 27 Switzerland tel. 41 22 791 3264 fax 41 22 791 4857 e-mail bookorders@ . Requests for permission to reproduce or translate WHO publications - whether for sale or for noncommercial distribution - should be addressed to WHO Press at the above address fax 41 22 791 4806 e-mail permissions@ . The designations employed and the presentation of the material in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the World Health Organization concerning the legal status of any country territory city or area or of its authorities or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. Dotted lines on maps represent approximate border lines for which there may not yet be full agreement. The mention of specific companies or of certain manufacturers products does not imply that they are endorsed or recommended by the World Health Organization in preference to others of a similar nature that are not mentioned. Errors and omissions excepted the names of proprietary products are distinguished by initial capital letters. All reasonable precautions have been taken by the World Health Organization to verify the .