Patterns of Mental Health Care in Remote Areas: Kimberley (Australia), Nunavik (Canada), and Lapland (Finland): Modeles de soins de sante mentale dans les regions eloignees: Kimberley (Australie), Nunavik (Canada) et Laponie (Finlande).

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Mental health (MH) care in remote areas is frequently scarce and fragmented and difficult to compare objectively with other areas even in the same country. This study aimed to analyze the adult MH service provision in 3 remote areas of Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries in the world.

Methods

We used an internationally agreed set of systems indicators, terminology, and classification of services (Description and Evaluation of Services and DirectoriEs for Long Term Care). This instrument provided a standard description of MH care provision in the Kimberley region (Australia), Nunavik (Canada), and Lapland (Finland), areas characterized by an extremely low population density and high relative rates of Indigenous peoples.

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SUBMITTER: Salinas-Perez JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7502882 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature