The Ministry of Health Guide mental health in primary health care centers, a step for the application of advanced mental health program in the health care sector.
Dr Mahmoud Fikri, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health Assistant for Health Policy has announced the introduction of such evidence in health institutions in primary care, through the opening of the UAE’s first mental health.
Said Dr. Mona Al Kuwari, Director of the Central Administration for Primary Health Care The purpose of the guide is a reference to help doctors and different cadres working in primary health care to deal with the psychological conditions and early detection of those cases with clarification methods of treatment, as well as the Guide is designed to promote mental health and the definition of its strategy different.
She stressed that the evidence the product of effort for a good group of consultants and specialists in the field of mental health workers in the Ministry of Health was also reviewed by many specialists in this field from both inside and outside the country.
The proof is based on the different references of the most important guide World Health Organization, issued in 2004, includes directory introduction explains the purpose of the mental health program in primary health care, opportunities and challenges facing the integration of mental health in primary health care services.
The manual consists of nine chapters deals with a variety of the first of which the concept of mental illness and methods of diagnosis and classifications of the World Psychiatric, followed by a chapter on the symptoms and complaints of psychiatric patients with different easy to explain to her primary care physician how to deal with it.
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