Education and training resource package for scaling-up professional competencies of primary health care providers
Mental health
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Atlas - Nurses in mental health (2007)
This document presents results of a global survey on the availability, education, training, and role of nurse in mental health care. The Project Atlas is aimed at the collection, compilation and dissemination of relevant global information on mental health resources at national level. The target readership includes policy-makers and planners in ministries of health and education, professionals in public health, mental health and nursing, and nongovernmental organizations interested and active in these areas. It may also be useful to students of public health, mental health and nursing.
- Screening and brief intervention: for alcohol problems in primary care (2001)
- The alcohol use disorders identification text - Guidelines for use in primary care
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Brief intervention - For hazardous and harmful drinking
Alongside with the companion publication on the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT), WHO has also produced a manual to aid primary health care workers in administering brief interventions to persons whose alcohol consumption has become hazardous or harmful to their health. Together, these manuals describe a comprehensive approach to alcohol screening and brief intervention (SBI) that is designed to improve the health of the population and patient groups as well as individuals.
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A WHO educational package: Mental disorders in primary care (1998)
This educational package aims to facilitate the diagnosis and management of common mental disorders by improving the knowledge, skills and behavior of primary care providers. It is brief, clinician friendly, management-orientated and flexible enough to be adapted to specific country needs. The main strength of the WHO Educational package comes from its conception as a ’tool-kit’ in modular form. Similar to 'Lego' pieces, its components can be added or removed according to needs. Users can select and adapt those elements of the kit that are most relevant to their practices.