Manjunatha Narayana, Kumar Channaveerachari Naveen, Chander Kalaivanan Rakesh, Sadh Kamaldeep, Gowda Guru S, Vinay B, Shashidhara H N, Parthasarathy Rajani, Rao Girish N, Math Suresh Bada, Thirthalli Jagadisha
Department of Psychiatry, Government of Karnataka, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
Department of Health and Family Welfare Service, Government of Karnataka, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
Indian J Psychiatry. 2019 Nov-Dec;61(6):635-639. doi: 10.4103/psychiatry.IndianJPsychiatry_343_19.
This article highlights the platform and framework for the new public mental health initiative, the Taluk Mental Health Program (TMHP), rolled out by the Government of India, as part of the expansion of the District Mental Health Program. In this initial phase, TMHP has been approved for ten taluks of Karnataka state. In the authors' collective opinion, few of the initiatives in the country could be considered as foundations for conceptualizing the TMHP (a) research programs and projects in the community, (b) community intervention programs running in two taluks of Karnataka since the past one and a half decade (Thirthahalli and Turuvekere taluks of Karnataka), and the (c) Primary Care Psychiatry Program of National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences. The article briefly describes the above initiatives and ends with further suggestions to scale up TMHP.
本文重点介绍了印度政府推出的新的公共心理健康倡议——乡心理健康项目（TMHP）的平台和框架，该项目是地区心理健康项目扩展的一部分。在初始阶段，TMHP已在卡纳塔克邦的10个乡获得批准。作者们一致认为，该国很少有倡议可被视为构建TMHP的基础：（a）社区研究项目；（b）过去十五年间在卡纳塔克邦两个乡（卡纳塔克邦的蒂尔塔哈利乡和图鲁韦克雷乡）开展的社区干预项目；以及（c）国家心理健康和神经科学研究所的初级保健精神病学项目。本文简要介绍了上述倡议，并就扩大TMHP提出了进一步建议。
