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. 2018 Mar 9;15(3):e1002524.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002524. eCollection 2018 Mar.

Global child and adolescent mental health: The orphan of development assistance for health

Chunling Lu  1   2   3 , Zhihui Li  4 , Vikram Patel  2
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Global child and adolescent mental health: The orphan of development assistance for health

Chunling Lu et al. PLoS Med. .

Abstract

In an analysis of data from the Creditor Reporting System, Chunling Lu and colleagues investigate the level of development assistance from high-income countries towards child and adolescent mental health in low- and middle-income countries.

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Fig 1
Fig 1. DAMH_CA by year (million, 2013 USD) and DAMH_CA disbursements as percentages of total DAMH, lower-bound estimates.
DAMH, development assistance for mental health; DAMH_CA, development assistance for child and adolescent mental health, USD, US dollar.
Fig 2
Fig 2. DAMH_CA by year and sector (million, 2013 USD), lower-bound estimates.
In this figure, we combined the sectors “General Health” and “Population Program and Reproductive Health” in the original CRS dataset as “Health,” the sectors “Humanitarian Aid” and “Multisector/Crosscutting” as “Humanitarian Aid,” and the sectors “Government and Civil Society” and “Other Social Infrastructure and Services” as “Government and Civil Society.” CRS, Creditor Reporting System; DAMH_CA, development assistance for child and adolescent mental health; USD, US dollar.
Fig 3
Fig 3. Average annual per capita DAMH_CA disbursement between 2007 and 2015 in each country (2013 USD), lower-bound estimates.
(1) The top 10 countries with the highest average annual per capita DAMH_CA disbursement are West Bank and Gaza Strip (US$2.88), Kiribati (US$1.33), Lebanon (US$0.37), Bosnia and Herzegovina (US$0.23), Samoa (US$0.16), Georgia (US$0.15), Jordan (US$0.13), Sri Lanka (US$0.11), Libya (US$0.11), and Central African Republic (US$0.11). (2) We did not include unallocable or regional DAMH_CA projects. DAMH_CA, development assistance for child and adolescent mental health; USD, US dollar.
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