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BasicNeeds is a global mental health organisation, which works with people with mental illness or epilepsy in the developing world to alleviate their poverty and help them secure their basic rights. The organisation was established 2000, by Chris Underhill MBE, who had worked with mental health organisations in Africa for over 25 years and arrived on the continent in the early 1970s with Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO). BasicNeeds was a response to the lack of real mental health care in lower and middle income countries. Led by Chris Underhill, BasicNeeds developed a new approach called the Model for Mental Health and Development,〔http://www.basicneeds.org/about-us/〕 to accommodate lack of national government action in this area of healthcare. BasicNeeds started its work in India in 2000 and quickly expanded to Sri Lanka later that year. Since its foundation until now the organisation has helped over 609,000 people with mental illness or epilepsy as well as their families and carers in India, Sri Lanka, Ghana, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Lao PDR, Vietnam, Nepal, China, Pakistan and South Sudan.〔http://www.basicneeds.org/where-we-work/〕 ==Background== According to the World Health Organisation (WHO) more than 450 million people suffer from mental disorders.〔http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs220/en/index.html〕 A WHO report noted that low- and middle-income countries’ provision of mental health services is minimal. Many do not invest in mental health care at all, and one third of the global population live in countries that allocate less than 1% of their total health budget to mental health. There was a huge lack of community facilities, and many individuals received no real care, but were merely placed in institutions where they were often physically chained and abused. BasicNeeds was set up because of the factors which the WHO report highlighted, and through its programmes attempts to ensure that mental health is given due attention. In 2000, BasicNeeds launched its first programme in south India. Work began with consultation of those who had mental disorders, their families and carers, non-governmental organisations, mental health specialists, and government officials. This initial consultation aimed to find out what the problems were, and to create some initial ideas for developing solutions. These initial consultations in India made those involved in BasicNeeds’ set up realise that the medical and socio-economic issues related to mental health could not be separated, but must be dealt with concurrently, if any change was to be real and sustainable. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「BasicNeeds」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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