Management of psychiatric problems in a Kenyan mission hospital.
BMJPublished 12 June 1976Open access
Phil McEvoy, Helen McEvoy
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Many psychiatric conditions are found in the rural general hospital in Kenya and are recognisable and manageable along standard Western lines.
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Many psychiatric conditions are found in the rural general hospital in Kenya and are recognisable and manageable along standard Western lines. An essential element in management is the training of the nursing staff. The psychiatric patient should be actively managed and can benefit from the unsophisticated treatment possible at the mission hospital.
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PsychologyHealth Professions
The British Journal of PsychiatryAspects of Clinical Psychiatry in Sub-Saharan Africa
177 Citations1972G. Allen German
In the broadly quantitative sense there is considerable evidence for psychiatric disorder being no less frequent in Africa than in developed countries, particularly Britain.