Mental health care and COVID-19.

Replies to comments made by Maji Hailemariam & Soumitra Pathare (see record 2020-88514-011) on the original article by Carmen Moreno et al (see record 2020-64057-025) We would like to thank Hailemariam and Pathare for their letter in which, among other issues, they refer to our recently published Position Paper In our Position Paper, we provide an international perspective, with authors and users and family associations from 14 countries, on how the pandemic offers an opportunity to improve mental health-care provision Finding commonalities and sharing experiences that can translate to different setting helped us to propose a core set of measures to establish the benefits of such changes once implemented In their reply Celso Arango, Til Wykes and Carmen Moreno maintain that the views and solutions expressed in their paper do apply to medium-income and high-income countries with advanced health systems where granular mental health monitoring might be possible They are aware that these approaches might not be relevant to low-income countries with no psychiatrists or with no mental health services in place where, ipso facto, priorities are different, and public health or primary health are the focus (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved)