Innovation Incubator, Leuphana University Lüneburg , Lüneburg , Germany.
Front Public Health. 2014 Jun 11;2:65. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2014.00065. eCollection 2014.
Mental disorders are common in almost all industrialized countries and many emerging economies. While several trials have shown that effective treatments exist for mental disorders, such as pharmacotherapy, psychological interventions, and self-help programs, the treatment gap in mental health care remains pervasive. Unrestricted access to adequate medical care for people with mental disorders will be one of the pressing public mental health tasks in the near future. In addition, scarcity of financial resources across the public mental health sector is a powerful argument for investigating innovative alternatives of delivering mental health care. Thus, one challenge that arises in modern mental health care is the development of innovative treatment concepts. One possibility for improving mental health care services is to deliver them via the Internet. Online-based mental health services have the potential to address the unmet need for mental health care.
精神障碍在几乎所有的工业化国家和许多新兴经济体中都很常见。虽然有几项试验表明，精神障碍存在有效的治疗方法，如药物治疗、心理干预和自助计划，但精神卫生保健方面的治疗缺口仍然普遍存在。让精神障碍患者能够不受限制地获得充分的医疗服务，将是近期紧迫的公共精神卫生任务之一。此外，公共精神卫生部门资金短缺，这有力地证明了需要探索提供精神卫生保健的创新替代方法。因此，在现代精神卫生保健中出现的一个挑战是开发创新的治疗概念。改善精神卫生保健服务的一种可能性是通过互联网提供服务。基于互联网的精神卫生服务有可能满足精神卫生保健的未满足需求。
