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Mental Healthcare Services in the Community: Where Does India Stand?

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India has witnessed the emergence of a National Mental Health Policy 2014 and enactment of the Mental Healthcare Act 2017 in this decade. Both the policy and legislation recognise the right of people to access mental healthcare as well as social care, with emphasis on services in the community, thus enshrining their right to live in the community. Despite the recent policy attention to mental health, formulating and implementing mental health care in the community is a challenge in India in the context of insufficient budgetary outlays, human resource shortages and differing levels of social and economic development across states.

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Acknowledgements

The book is a revised version of a Navajbai Ratan Tata Trust funded documentation completed in 2014. The report was entitled ‘Documentation of five Community mental Health programmes in India: Janamanas (Anjali), Antara, ASHWINI, Rural Mental Health Programme (The Banyan) and Mental Health Action Trust’. We acknowledge that we have referred to an interview schedule shared by Dr Pratima Murthy, NIMHANS to collect information from NGOs.

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  2. Department of Clinical Psychology, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS), Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

    Aruna Rose Mary Kapanee

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Balagopal, G., Kapanee, A.R.M. (2019). Mental Healthcare Services in the Community: Where Does India Stand?. In: Mental Health Care Services in Community Settings. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9101-9_1

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