Abstract

The membership directory of the Indian Psychiatric Society (IPS), the report (on mental health) of the technical committee of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), and the recently concluded National Mental Health Survey. [...]data from the recently concluded NMHS addresses this issue in the following manner: “The availability of psychiatrists in the NMHS states varied from 0.05 per lakh population in Madhya Pradesh to 1.2 per 100,000 population in Kerala. From the public health point of view, this leads to a couple of searching issues: (a) absence of a reliable and unified system of monitoring of numbers of psychiatrists (b) addressing the shortage of psychiatrists (c) related to the above, addressing the huge variability of their availability.

Details

Title
Number of psychiatrists in India: Baby steps forward, but a long way to go
Author
Garg, Kabir 1 ; Kumar, C 1 ; Chandra, Prabha 1 

 Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bengaluru, Karnataka 
Pages
104-105
Publication year
2019
Publication date
Jan/Feb 2019
Publisher
Medknow Publications & Media Pvt. Ltd.
ISSN
00195545
e-ISSN
19983794
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2167169416
Copyright
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