Lora A, Sharan P
Lecco Hospital of Mental Health, via dell'Eremo 9/11 Lecco 23900, Italy.
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Psychiatry, New Delhi, India.
Glob Ment Health (Camb). 2015 Aug 19;2:e17. doi: 10.1017/gmh.2015.15. eCollection 2015.
Information is needed for development of mental health (MH) services; and particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LAMICs), where the MH systems are relatively weak. World Health Organization (WHO) has worked intensively during the last 15 years for developing a strategy in the field of MH information.
The paper analyzes WHO instruments developed in this area [MH Atlas series and WHO Assessment Instrument for Mental Health Systems (WHO-AIMS)].
Data from Atlas series and WHO-AIMS demonstrated that the role of information is often neglected at all the steps: from data collection and processing to analysis, dissemination and utilization, particularly in LAMIC. By implementing several sets of feasible MH indicators WHO has technically supported the improvement of the MH information systems in LAMICs.
In the last few years the importance of information in MH has increased and has been successfully highlighted; but a lot of work still needs to be done for achieving a minimum set of MH indicators and reliable data that can be used by both high-income countries and LAMIC.
心理健康（MH）服务的发展需要信息；尤其是在中低收入国家（LAMICs），其心理健康系统相对薄弱。世界卫生组织（WHO）在过去15年中一直在积极努力制定心理健康信息领域的战略。
本文分析了WHO在该领域开发的工具[《心理健康地图集》系列和《世界卫生组织心理健康系统评估工具》（WHO - AIMS）]。
来自地图集系列和WHO - AIMS的数据表明，信息的作用在各个环节往往被忽视：从数据收集、处理到分析、传播和利用，尤其是在中低收入国家。通过实施几套可行的心理健康指标，WHO在技术上支持了中低收入国家心理健康信息系统的改进。
在过去几年中，信息在心理健康领域的重要性有所增加并得到了成功凸显；但要实现一套最低限度的心理健康指标以及可供高收入国家和中低收入国家使用的可靠数据，仍有许多工作要做。
