Rich Country,Poor People: the challenges of providing psychiatric services in the public and the private sectors in Papua New Guinea

Abstract

Objective:

To describe some of the challenges in the provision of psychiatric services in Papua New Guinea.

Conclusion:

Many of the challenges faced when providing mental health care are not clinical in nature, but rather a combination of social, cultural, economic and infrastructural factors that hinder the adequate provision of, and access to, psychiatric services in Papua New Guinea.

Keywords

Papua New Guinea psychiatric services service factors mental health care

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