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From: Prof. Mario Maj <majmario@tin.it>
Date: Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 1:20 PM
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Dear Colleagues,

I am happy to share with you a very good news.

The WPA has been invited to produce a paper for the Lancet on the
feasibility, acceptability and affordability of packages of care for
specific mental disorders across the stages of life in the various
regions of the world. All WPA Zone Representatives and Presidents of
WPA Member Societies who are interested to participate will be asked
to rate those packages of care with respect to several dimensions. A
data analysis will be made and the results will be published in the
Lancet paper. All WPA Zone Representatives and Presidents of WPA
Member Societies who have contributed will be named in the paper.

Please find below the relevant correspondence between Vikram Patel and
Richard Horton, the Lancet Editor.

I think this initiative will contribute to enhance the image of the
WPA and galvanize its components.

I look forward to hearing from you about your Society's interest to
participate. I would appreciate receiving a response by November 21.

With warmest regards,

Yours sincerely,

Mario Maj

P.S. If your Society has a new President or if you wish me to contact
another officer of your Society, please let me know.

From: Horton, Richard (ELS-CAM) [mailto:Richard.Horton@lancet.com]
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 7:41 AM
To: vikram.patel@lshtm.ac.uk
Cc: majmario@tin.it
Subject: Re: Proposed paper on continuum of care for mental disorders

Dear Vikram - Fabulous idea. In MNCH the continuum of care model has
had a helpful impact, so I'd be enthusiastic about developing this for
mental health.

Let's definitely add this idea to those for next year's theme issue.

My best, Richard

From: Vikram Patel [mailto:vikram.patel@lshtm.ac.uk]
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 4:31 AM
To: 'Horton, Richard (ELS-CAM)'
Cc: 'Prof. Mario Maj'
Subject: Proposed paper on continuum of care for mental disorders

Dear Richard

I am writing to you to inquire whether a new initiative, led by the
World Psychiatric Association, may be of relevance to the call for
papers one
WPA is the world's largest mental health organization with member
societies in nearly every country. Mario Maj, one of the most active
members of the Lancet GMH series and the new President of the WPA, has
established a new WPA Initiative on the Continuum of Care for Mental
Disorders. With me, and a small writing group, we will be carrying out
a global consultation of the nearly 200 WPA regional and country
representatives to assess the feasibilty, acceptability and
affordability of delivery mechanisms for effective interventions for
mental disorders across the life course. This approach is inspired by
the review paper in the Lancet on the continuum of care for maternal,
newborn and child health, and aims to generate (through a staged
Delphi methodology) packages of care for childhood, adolescence,
adulthood and old age, providing information on priority conditions
and delivery mechanisms in low-resource settings with a focus on
equity of coverage. This approach will complement the WHO mhGAP
initiative on development guidelines for specific mental disorders by
considering how these disorder specific packages will be delivered
across the life course, in the context of health system realities in
low-resource settings. We anticipate producing a review paper along
the lines of the maternal/newborn/child paper. Of course, we fully
understand that any paper would need to be reviewed and there is no
commitment to publish, but we are only exploring whether such a paper
may be considered for publication in the context of the call for
papers.

Regards

Vikram

Vikram Patel

Professor of International Mental Health &

Wellcome Trust Senior Clinical Research Fellow in Tropical Medicine

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Address: Sangath Centre, Porvorim, Goa, India 403521