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Mental health in Kenya is a challenging and pervasive issue and what makes it even more complex is the lack of adequate mental health practitioners, raging poverty and the stigma attached to mental problems. Mental health advocacy campaign seeks to address these issues by raising awareness about them through mass events, local seminars and distribution of appropriate literature on the subject and its seriousness.
INTRODUCTION (NEEDS/GOALS)
II A. Factors affecting mental health situation in Kenya
Serious brain drain results in sparse specialist care
Debilitating effects of poverty
Influx of refugees
Funding problems
Poor healthcare policy affecting education, health and social goals
f. Stigma attached to mental problems resulting in poor attitude making the problem worse
IIA. Goals
a. To bring about a change in attitude
b. To raise awareness about debilitating effects of mental health neglect
c. To push for changes in mental healthcare policy
d. To influence the legislative process
e. To raise awareness about the issue of brain drain and its effects on availability of specialist care
III. BARRIERS AND SUPPORTS
III A. Barriers
a. Society's attitude towards mental problems
b. Lack of awareness regarding sparse specialist care
c. Lack of knowledge about effects of a poor healthcare policy
III B. Supports
a. Community
b. Healthcare practitioners
c. Leaders and NGOs
IV....
ACTIVITIES
a. Organization of mass events for awareness
b. Distribution of appropriate and relevant literature
c. Seminars at colleges, universities and town halls
d. Posters at key locations
V. RECOMMENDATIONS AND CONCLUSION
Since the plan is to develop an advocacy campaign, we must organize it around the key issues that need to be addressed. Poverty and its effects on mental health is one area that must be studied along with the effects of serious brain drain. The legislative process needs to be closely studied to see how poor policy making is affecting mental health issues in Kenya. Kenyans needs to develop a more proactive approach to the issue of mental health. They need to get rid of the stigma attached to this problem and see it as any other disease. That is the only way this problem can be brought out in the open and some concrete actions can be taken to improve the condition of mental healthcare in Kenya.
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. Mustafa, G. 1973. Society in relation to mental health in Kenya Journal of nervous and mental disease, Volumes 156-157
One of the oldest and most genuine article on the subject of society's attitude towards mental health issues in Kenya. The article was written in 1973 and is found in most books dealing with the subject of mental health in Africa. It contains some very important information on the subject which reveals that not much has changed since then.
2. Bruce. M. "Urbanization and poverty: seventh report of session 2008-09," Vol. 2: Oral and written evidence, Volume 2. Great Britain:…
This source explains how legislative process works and how policy making has been affecting mental health situation in Kenya.
10. Ndetel., D. The challenges of human resources in mental health in Kenya. S African Psychiatry Rev 2007; 10:33-36
The source gives information on brain drain and how that has resulted in lack of competent psychiatrists in the field of mental health.
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