Neurological, Psychiatric, and Developmental Disorders Meeting the Challenge in the Developing World (2001) / Chapter Skim
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Additionally, improvements in health care and sanitation are enabling more children in developing countries to survive infancy, but without concomitant efforts to reduce the occurrence of developmental disabilities, the number of disabled children is likely to increase. Neurological, psychiatric, and developmental disorders are estimated to affect as many as 1.5 billion people worldwide—a number that is expected to grow as life expectancy increases around the globe.
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Other brain disorders contributing to the burden of disease in developing countries but not among the disorders discussed in Part 11 include Alzheimer's disease, addictive disorders, HIV encephalopathy, meningitis, peripheral neuropathies, autism, posttraumatic stress disorder, cerebral palsy, dementia, and Parkinson's disease. 2 See chapters 7 and 10.
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Overcoming discrimination against those who suffer from brain disorders requires the educating of communities to gain their active collaboration in respecting and caring for patients. Medical care for the majority of the world's population living in developing countries is provided through community health care centers organized and financed by national governments or by religious and other nongovernmental organizations.
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GOALS OF THE STUDY The committee was charged to prepare a consensus report that would define the increasing burden caused by brain disorders and identify opportunities for effectively reducing that burden with cost-effective strategies for prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. The committee was also asked to identify areas of research, development, and capacity strengthening that would contribute most significantly to reducing the overall burden of these disorders in developing countries.
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identify mechanisms for incorporating care for brain disorders into existing health systems in developing countries. This report does not examine a number of significant brain disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease, HIV encephalopathy, meningitis, addictive disorders, peripheral neuropathies, posttraumatic stress disorder, and injuries of the brain and central nervous system.
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The combined weight of such evidence, the committee believes, has produced an accurate account of the state of knowledge concerning the epidemiology of the six groups of disorders covered in this report, their treatment and management in developing countries, and the capacity of local health care systems to provide such treatment. Evaluation of the available evidence enabled the committee to identify gaps in knowledge and to propose strategies for a research agenda that would fill these gaps.
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