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Assessing Development Assistance for Mental Health in Developing Countries: 2007–2013

2015; Public Library of Science; Volume: 12; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1371/journal.pmed.1001834

1549-1676

Barnabas J Gilbert, Vikram Patel, Paul E. Farmer, Chunling Lu,

Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare

The Need for Investment in Global Mental Health Mental and substance-use disorders account for approximately 8% of the global burden of disease, afflicting as many as 700 million people worldwide [1,2].The most recent estimates rank Summary Points• Mental disorders are a leading cause of the global burden of disease, and the provision of mental health services in developing countries remains very limited and far from equitable.• Using the Creditor Reporting System, we estimate the amounts and patterns of development assistance for global mental health (DAMH) between 2007 and 2013.This allows us to examine how well international donors have responded to calls by global mental health advocates to scale up evidence-based services.• Although DAMH did increase between 2007 and 2013, it remains low both in absolute terms and as a proportion of total development assistance for health (DAH).The average annual DAMH between 2007 and 2013 was US$133.57million, and the proportion of DAH attributed to mental health is less than 1%.