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2002 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
pp. 1425-1425
Author(s):  
Roger Briggs
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disorders ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
Psychosocial Problems ◽  
World Health ◽  
Health Organization

scholarly journals Collaboration between traditional healers and psychiatrists in Sudan

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 71-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. A. Sorketti ◽  
N. Z. Zuraida ◽  
M. H. Habil
Keyword(s):  
World Health Organization ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Belief System ◽  
Psychosocial Problems ◽  
Traditional Healers ◽  
World Health ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Middle Income Countries ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Low And Middle Income

The importance of traditional healing in low- and middle-income countries cannot be under estimated. It is generally perceived as part of the prevailing belief system and traditional healers are often seen as the primary agents for psychosocial problems in these countries; estimates of their service share range from 45% to 60% (World Health Organization, 1992). The World Health Organization (2000) estimated that 80% of people living in rural areas in low- and middle-income countries depend on traditional medicine for their health needs.

scholarly journals Revision of the classification of mental disorders in ICD–11 and DSM–V: work in progress

2010 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norman Sartorius
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Mental Disorders ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
American Psychiatric Association ◽  
World Health ◽  
Dsm V ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Work Done

SummaryThis editorial summarises the work done to prepare ICD–11 and DSM–V (which should be published in 2015 and 2013 respectively). It gives a brief description of the structures that have been put in place by the World Health Organization and by the American Psychiatric Association and lists the issues and challenges that face the two organisations on their road to the revisions of the classifications. These include dilemmas about the ways of presentation of the revisions (e.g. whether dimensions should be added to categories or even replace them), about different versions of the classifications (e.g. the primary care and research versions), about ways to ensure that the best of evidence as well as experience are taken into account in drafting the revision and many other issues that will have to be resolved in the immediate future.

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