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| Year : 2019 | Volume
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| Issue : 1 | Page : 52-54 |
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Models and roles in National Mental Health Programme
G Balamurugan1, G Radhakrishnan2, M Vijayarani3
1 HoD-Department of Mental Health Nursing Ramaiah Institute of Nursing Education and Research, Bangalore, India
2 Faculty of Nursing, National Institute of Mental Health And Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore, India
3 Assistant Professor, ESIC College of Nursing, Bangalore, India
Correspondence Address:
Dr. M Vijayarani
ESIC College of Nursing, Bengaluru, Karnataka
India
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None  | 3 |
DOI: 10.4103/IOPN.IOPN_18_19
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In India, National Mental Health Programme (NMHP) was started in 1982 with the primary objectives of ensuring availability and accessibility of minimum mental healthcare for all. In 1985, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, Bengaluru, had developed Bellary model of District Mental Health Programme (DMHP), to achieve the objectives of National Mental Health Programme (NHMP). The current DMHP has more scope for the nurses to deliver mental health services as psychiatric nurse and community nurse. Hardly, one-third of districts in India are covered under DMHP and the service utilization is also to be strengthened. Psychiatric nurses have greater scope to transform all these existing challenges into opportunities.
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