The Reform Process of Mental Health Services Within Iran’s Primary Health Care (PHC) System: What has been Accomplished and What Remains to be Done
نویسندگان
1 Advanced Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
2 Breast Disease Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
3 Students’ Scientific Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
4 Student Research Committee, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
5 Cancer Biology Research Center, Cancer Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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http://dx.doi.org/10.18502/jimc.v8i4.19558چکیده
Dear Editor,The integration of mental health services into the Primary Health Care (PHC) system began in the early 1980s in Iran. This, in part, was a response to the pervasive mental health problems related to the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988) and the broader socioeconomic hardships of the period (1). With the demand for accessibility and affordability of the services within mental health care, the government needed to integrate mental health within the already established Primary Health Care (PHC) system in a bid to guarantee access to fundamental health services throughout the country (1).
