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Health Check: International Mental Health Day

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10/10/2012

International Mental Health Day

BBC World Service - Health Check, International Mental Health Day

The state of mental health provision in developing countries.

The state of mental health provision in developing countries, with examples from Ghana and Cameroon. For International Mental Health Day we ask why abuse seems to continue.

More than 450 million people around the world have mental health problems. For International Mental Health Day Claudia Hammond asks why for some of those people the care they receive is getting worse. Our reporters in Ghana and Cameroon uncover neglect and even abuse.  We examine why mental health seems to get forgotten by society and by many international funders.  We look at whether it’s possible to change attitudes towards mental illness.

(Image: A mental disorder patient chained to his bed. Credit: ISMOYO/AFP/GettyImages)

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