Government MCH strategy While Sri Lanka’s child survival ratio has increased to a higher level than ever before, it has been reported that many of the children suffer from the ill-effects of under-nutrition. As a result, approximately 17 per... Read more
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The Sri Lankan twin registry is one of the first to be established in a developing country, and its design has ensured sampling from a wide range of environmental conditions. It thus has great potential to examine environmental and... Read more
Intervention, 9(2),125-136 In Sri Lanka, mental health care trainings of primary health care workers were conducted in two administrative areas called districts, both hit hard in the 2004 Tsunami natural disaster, which killed about 40,000 people in Sri Lanka,... Read more
Report on the country visit was undertaken for the purpose of a mental health needs assessment in Northeast Sri Lanka. Consequently, a comprehensive five-year mental health plan was developed in close collaboration with local mental health expertise. Read more
Outreach clinics for mental health have been established in almost all the major MoH divisions in the country. All the districts in Sri Lanka now have at least one or two doctors holding a diploma in psychiatry. Apart from... Read more
Psychiatric training has to adapt to existing needs. The positive steps in this direction in Sri Lanka and the recent landmark achievements in undergraduate and postgraduate training are discussed. The lessons learnt and the directions for the future can... Read more
DALYs is a combination of years of life lost (YLL) and years of life lived with disability (YLD) which takes into account the years of healthy future life lost due to premature mortality and disability or injury respectively, and... Read more
Sri Lanka has one of the highest suicide rates in the world, with recent protracted conflict and the tsunami aggravating mental health needs. This paper describes a project to establish a systematic “train the trainers” programme to integrate mental... Read more
Program Description by VSO International: People with mental health problems are one of the most marginalized groups in Sri Lanka. In 2004, at a VSOSL stakeholder workshop, three main issues were identified which contribute to the marginalisation of people... Read more
Cluster randomized trial of a school-based psychosocial intervention aimed at reducing psychological symptoms and strengthening resources in children affected by armed conflict in Sri Lanka Read more
