tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: "Galvanising mental health research in low- and middle-income countries: Role of scientific journals."

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học General Psychiatry cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Galvanising mental health research in low- and middle-income countries: Role of scientific journals. | BioMed Central Annals of General Hospital Psychiatry Editorial Open Access Galvanising mental health research in low- and middle-income countries Role of scientific journals Editors and WHO November 2003 Group Address Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse World Health Organization Geneva Email Editors and WHO November 2003 Group - saxenas@ Corresponding author Published 01 March 2004 Received 25 February 2004 Accepted 01 March 2004 Annals of General Hospital Psychiatry 2004 3 5 This article is available from http content 3 l 5 2004 Editors and WHO November 2004 Group licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article verbatim copying and redistribution of this article are permitted in all media for any purpose provided this notice is preserved along with the article s original URL. The Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse WHO organized a meeting on Mental Health Research in Developing Countries Role of Scientific Journals in Geneva on 20 and 21 November 2003 that was attended by twenty-five editors representing journals publishing mental health research. A number of other editors reviewed and contributed to the background and follow-up material. This statement is issued by all participants jointly see Appendix 1 for the list of journals organizations and their representatives . Research is needed to address the enormous unmet mental health needs of low- and middle-income LAMI countries. Scientific journals play an important role in production and dissemination of research. However at present only a minute proportion of research published in widely accessible mental health and psychiatric journals is from or about these countries. Yet over 85 of the world s population lives in the 153 countries categorized as low- and middle-income according to World Bank criteria. Even more worrying is the observation that the gap between these and high-income countries may be widening in terms of their number