Article Excerpt: Countries around the world are feeling the strain on the mental healthcare workforce, with more people in need and fewer resources to help them. Lisa Marsch, PhD, a professor of psychiatry, and her colleagues at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine and partners in Colombia have been working on a science-based digital solution, which has had great success in Latin America. Marsch partnered with Carlos Gómez-Restrepo, MD, PhD, the dean of the Faculty of Medicine, and other researchers at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, on the project, called Scaling Up Science-Based Mental Health Interventions in Latin America. Also known as the DIADA project, which stands for Detection and Integrated Care for Depression and Alcohol Use in Primary Care, Marsch’s research was conducted in six primary care systems in Colombia…
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Article Source: Dartmouth Health Psychiatry Spring 2022 Newsletter