Global Psychiatrists Unite to Improve Services in Men...(ets out a five-step plan to address thes...)

Date:9/19/2008

ets out a five-step plan to address these inequalities. The focus is on: taking responsibility for the patient - by the primary responsible treating physician; education and training - to increase general medical education in psychiatric training and increase psychiatric education in general medical training; access to services - by implementing measures such as improving access to general physical healthcare, appropriate insurance coverage and general physical healthcare within psychiatric institutions and systems of mental health care; collaboration with colleagues in other disciplines - to develop comprehensive educations efforts aimed at improving the knowledge and skills of mental health care providers; and more research into comorbidities seen in severe mental disorders.

The article is based on presentations and discussions during two international meetings in 2006 that were funded by an independent educational grant from Pfizer Inc., New York, N.Y.

NOTES TO EDITORS:

List of Authors

Dr Wolfgang Fleischhacker, Medical University Innsbruck, Austria

Dr Marcelo Cetkovich-Bakmas, the Department of Psychiatry, Institute of Cognitive Neurology (INECO), and the Department of Psychiatry, Institute of Neurosciences, Favaloro Foundation, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Dr Marc De Hert, University Psychiatric Center, Catholic University Leuven, Belgium

Dr Charles Hennekens, the Department of Clinical Sciences and Medical Education, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton

Dr Martin Lambert, the Department for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Dr Stefan Leucht, the Department for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Technische Universitat Munchen, Munich, Germany

Dr Mario Maj, The Department of Psychiatry, University of Naples, Italy

Dr Roger McIntyre, Mood Disorders Psychopharmacology Unit, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada

Dr Dieter Naber
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SOURCE Medizinische Universität Innsbruck Dept. Psychiatry and Copyright©2008 PR Newswire. All rights reserved

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