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About the Collaborative Hubs for International Research in Mental Health
The proportion of people who need, but do not receive care the mental health treatment gap is exacerbated by the dearth of health care workers available to provide evidence-based mental health services that meet minimum standards. Although a growing evidence base for reducing the treatment gap exists for higher income countries like the United States, far less research has been conducted in countries identified by the World Bank as low- and middle-income (LMICs); yet approximately 85% of the world’s population resides in these settings, which face special human resource challenges. Evidence suggests that the majority of 58 LMICs have limitations in a number of mental health specialties: 67% showed a shortage of psychiatrists, 95% a shortage of nurses and 79% a shortage of psychological care providers.
Introduction
According to Anand & Barnighausen (2014), shortage of human resource in the health sector dramatically influences the lives of the citizen who dearly depend on their gifted services. Lack of professional health personnel such as nurses poses a great barrier to the realization of the Millennium Development Goals aimed at scaling high the wellbeing of citizens.
Hernandez, Dräger, Evans, Tan-Torres, Edejer & Dal Poz (2015), concludes that nurses play a critical role in national and global health systems. Their shortage results in the ineffectiveness of health care system, notably in remote communities where health practitioners are scarce (WHO 2006: ICN 2004). Nurses’ shortages are reported in Australia among other countries including Canada. With regards to WHO nurses comprise 40-50% of the global health providers and in Australia nurses range up to 55% of the total health providers. It is, therefore, essential to understanding the distribution of nurses to plan o