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Chapter 41 - Medical education and global mental health

from Section 8 - Research and monitoring the progress of countries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2014

Samuel O. Okpaku
Affiliation:
Center for Health, Culture, and Society, Nashville
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This chapter discusses two educational partnerships that illustrate how high-income countries (HICs), were able to collaborate with a low-income country (LIC), Ethiopia, addressing training needs and access to PhD training. These partnerships addressed the gap in Ethiopia, between mental health services and care delivery personnel and systems. The chapter emphasizes five impacts of the educational partnerships that were set up between Addis Ababa University (AAU) and the University of Toronto, and between AAU and Umeå University: the increase in research capacity and academic productivity; development of local psychiatric training capacity; progress that has been made in Ethiopia in the integration of mental health into the health system at all levels; regionalization of access and training for mental health in community systems; and task-sharing. The chapter concludes that partnerships between HICs and LICs in mental health education act to foster research into, and development of, culturally appropriate models of education.
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2014

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