Hosted by Global Mental Health & Stigma Program
GMH Symposium Speaker Series #9 with Dr. Arvin Bhana
South Africa has a 12-month prevalence estimate of 16.5% for common mental disorders (CMD), with almost a third (30.3%) of the population having experienced a CMD in their lifetime. The treatment gap is high with only one in four people with a CMD receiving treatment. This presentation will highlight the characteristics of the development, implementation, and evaluation of a collaborative care model that seeks to address this treatment gap in relation to common mental disorders into existing service delivery platforms at a primary health care level customized to local conditions at a district level. Dr. Bhana’s presentation will focus on addressing challenges and solutions along the cascade of care and highlights population effects using the RE-AIM (Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, Maintenance) evaluation framework and the CIFR (Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research) to understand contextual determinants of implementation success. This presentation will underline the importance of learning health systems in the effort to scale up integrated depression care.