Pathways to Psychiatric Care.

ABSTRACT

It is very important to understand how people seek pathways for psychiatric care especially in a developing nation like India. It is instrumental for planning and organizing psychiatric services for the community. Due to greater prevalence of mental illness in current times, majority of which are from developing nations with limited psychiatric services, studies determining the pathways of psychiatric care need to be undertaken so that mental health services could be planned according to the prevalent cultural norms and other factors more specific to the developing nations like India.