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Mental Health In Ethiopia. A critical milestone for Ethiopias mental health care sector the National Mental Health Strategy serves to provide accessible affordable and acceptable care for all Ethiopians. These are myths that have a part of Ethiopian. Families now do not need much agitation to seek medical help for their mentally ill members. People with mental illness are seen as violent and will never recover.
These funds have gone toward improving health services such as more adequate healthcare training. In Ethiopia mental health issues are not talked about or if it is brought up it is always associated with mad people who walk around half naked on the street and talk to themselves. Past challenges have been the lack of mental health specialists outside the capital Addis Ababa and the poor quality of services provided for mental neurological and substance use disorders. The Strategy was developed with extensive input from a wide range of stakeholders. Dereje Assefa a psychiatrist and head of the mental health department at the Ethiopian Health Ministry told Anadolu Agency that the man was among those in Ethiopia suffering from extreme mental health problems. The government starting seven years ago created a mental health strategy to aid the countrys mentally ill and allocated government funds to the overall improvement of mental healthcare.
Past challenges have been the lack of mental health specialists outside the capital Addis Ababa and the poor quality of services provided for mental neurological and substance use disorders.
In addition to physical illnesses which negatively impact mental health national policies that effect the well-being of communities human rights violations violence and cultural and environmental factors are among the causes the paper says. In addition to physical illnesses which negatively impact mental health national policies that effect the well-being of communities human rights violations violence and cultural and environmental factors are among the causes the paper says. Sitota Center for Mental Health CareAddisu Michael Psychiatric Clinic Addis Ababa Ethiopia. In addition there are now hundreds of research studies published about mental health in Africa. The Ethiopian Health Ministrys National Mental Health Strategy states that multiple factors are to blame for the increasing prevalence of mental illness. A critical milestone for Ethiopias mental health care sector the National Mental Health Strategy serves to provide accessible affordable and acceptable care for all Ethiopians.