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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Consortium PSYCHIATRICUM</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">Consortium PSYCHIATRICUM</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Consortium PSYCHIATRICUM</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2712-7672</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2713-2919</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Eco-Vector</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">106</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.17816/CP106</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>SPECIAL ARTICLE</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>СПЕЦИАЛЬНАЯ СТАТЬЯ</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">Community-Based Psychiatric Services in Sri Lanka: a Model by WHO in the Making</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Территориальные службы психиатрической помощи в Шри-Ланке: модель ВОЗ в действии</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4536-3270</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Rajasuriya</surname><given-names>Mahesh</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Раясурия</surname><given-names>Махеш</given-names></name></name-alternatives><address><country country="LK">Sri Lanka</country></address><bio xml:lang="en"><p>MD (Psychiatry), MBBS, Senior Lecturer, Consultant Psychiatrist, Director, Chairperson</p></bio><email>rajasuriya@psych.cmb.ac.lk</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2"/><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3"/><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff4"/><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff5"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5695-4781</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Hewagama</surname><given-names>Medhani</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Хевагама</surname><given-names>Медхани</given-names></name></name-alternatives><address><country country="LK">Sri Lanka</country></address><bio xml:lang="en"><p>MD (Psychiatry), MBBS, Consultant Psychiatrist</p></bio><email>medhanihewagama@gmail.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff6"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id 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Psychiatrist</p></bio><email>hiranya.w@gmail.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff8"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">University of Colombo</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Университет Коломбо</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><aff-alternatives id="aff2"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">The National Hospital of Sri Lanka</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Национальная больница Шри-Ланки</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><aff-alternatives id="aff3"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Centre for Combating Tobacco</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Центр по борьбе с табакокурением</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><aff-alternatives id="aff4"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Alcohol and Drug Information Centre</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Информационный центр по проблемам алкоголизма и наркомании</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><aff-alternatives id="aff5"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Sri Lanka Medical Association</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Медицинская ассоциация Шри-Ланки</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><aff-alternatives id="aff6"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Asiri Central Hospital</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Центральная больница Асири</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><aff-alternatives id="aff7"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">District General Hospital</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Районная больница общего профиля</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><aff-alternatives id="aff8"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Base Hospital - Wathupitiwala</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Государственная больница - Ватхупитивала</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="preprint" iso-8601-date="2021-12-16" publication-format="electronic"><day>16</day><month>12</month><year>2021</year></pub-date><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2021-12-31" publication-format="electronic"><day>31</day><month>12</month><year>2021</year></pub-date><volume>2</volume><issue>4</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en"/><issue-title xml:lang="ru"/><fpage>40</fpage><lpage>52</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2021-08-18"><day>18</day><month>08</month><year>2021</year></date><date date-type="accepted" iso-8601-date="2021-10-31"><day>31</day><month>10</month><year>2021</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2021, Rajasuriya M., Hewagama M., Ruwanpriya S., Wijesundara H.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2021, Раясурия М., Хевагама М., Руванприя С., Вийесундара Х.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2021</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Rajasuriya M., Hewagama M., Ruwanpriya S., Wijesundara H.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Раясурия М., Хевагама М., Руванприя С., Вийесундара Х.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://consortium-psy.com/jour/article/view/106">https://consortium-psy.com/jour/article/view/106</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>Sri Lanka is a lower middle-income, small island nation in the Indian Ocean, with a multi-ethnic population of 22 million. The healthcare system of the country is well established and relatively advanced, the delivery of which is free to the consumer. The health indicators of the country are impressive compared to regional figures. Psychiatric care in Sri Lanka has witnessed a rapid development over the last four decades, as the care model transformed from an asylum-based model, established during the British colonial times, to a district-wise hospital-based, care delivery model. Gradually, the teams that provided inpatient and outpatient services at the hospitals also started to provide community-based care. The newly added community-based services include outreach clinics, residential intermediate rehabilitation centres, home-based care, community resource/ support centres and telephone help lines. There is no or very little funding dedicated to community-based care services. The teams that deliver community services are funded, mostly indirectly, by the state health authorities. This is so, as these community teams are essentially the same psychiatry teams that are based at the hospitals, which are funded and run by the state health authorities. This lack of separation of the community and hospital teams without separate and dedicated funding is an impediment to service development, which needs to be addressed. However, paradoxically, this also constitutes an advantage, as the provision of care delivery from the hospital to the community is continuous, since the same team provides both hospital- and community-based care. In addition to the essential mental healthcare provision in the community with this basic infrastructure, each community service has improvised and adapted the utilization of other resources available to them, both formally as well as informally, to compensate for their financial and human resource limitations. These other resources are the community officials and the community services of the non-health sectors of the government, mainly the civil administration. Although sustainability may be questionable when services involve informal resources from the non-health sectors, these have so far proven useful and effective in a resource-poor environment, as they bring the community and various sectors together to facilitate services to support their own community.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>Шри-Ланка представляет собой небольшое островное государство в Индийском океане с доходами ниже среднего уровня и многонациональным населением в количестве 22 миллионов. Система здравоохранения в этой стране является устойчивой и относительно развитой, медицинские услуги предоставляются потребителям бесплатно. Показатели здоровья в стране являются впечатляющими в сравнении с региональными данными. Службы психиатрической помощи в Шри-Ланке быстро развивались в течение последних сорока лет, поскольку произошла смена модели психиатрической помощи: от модели на основе психиатрических лечебниц, сложившейся во времена, когда страна была колонией Британии, к модели оказания медицинских услуг на базе районных клиник. Постепенно группы специалистов, которые обеспечивали стационарное и амбулаторное лечение в клиниках, также стали оказывать медицинские услуги на территориальной основе. Новые дополнительные территориальные службы включают в себя выездные медпункты, центры промежуточной реабилитации с постоянным проживанием пациентов, уход на дому, территориальные информационные центры и центры поддержки, а также телефонные службы помощи. Специализированное финансирование территориальных медицинских услуг является очень скудным или вообще отсутствует. Финансирование групп, обеспечивающих функционирование территориальных служб, осуществляется государственными органами здравоохранения, в основном, косвенно. Это связано с тем, что такие территориальные службы, по сути, представляют собой те же службы психиатрической помощи на базе больниц, которые финансируются и управляются государственными органами здравоохранения. Отсутствие разграничения между территориальными и больничными службами и отдельного специализированного финансирования препятствует развитию таких служб, и эта проблема требует решения. Однако парадоксальным образом данная ситуация также является преимуществом, поскольку предоставление медицинских услуг на базе больниц и на территориальной основе осуществляется без перерывов, так как данные услуги оказывает одна и та же группа специалистов. Помимо оказания необходимой психиатрической помощи на территориальной основе с использованием такой базовой инфраструктуры, каждая территориальная служба приспособилась пользоваться другими доступными ресурсами, как официально, так и неофициально, чтобы компенсировать ограниченность финансовых и кадровых ресурсов. Такие ресурсы включают в себя общинных должностных лиц и территориальные правительственные службы, не связанные со здравоохранением (в основном, гражданскую администрацию). Хотя в случае привлечения неофициальных ресурсов из секторов, не связанных со здравоохранением, для оказания медицинских услуг устойчивость системы в долгосрочной перспективе вызывает сомнения, на данный момент в условиях нехватки ресурсов такая практика показала свою эффективность, поскольку она объединяет общество и различные секторы для упрощения предоставления услуг в целях поддержки региона.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>community psychiatry</kwd><kwd>community mental health</kwd><kwd>service development</kwd><kwd>Sri Lanka</kwd><kwd>service delivery model</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>территориальная психиатрия</kwd><kwd>территориальные службы психиатрической помощи</kwd><kwd>Шри-Ланка</kwd><kwd>модель предоставления услуг</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group/></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Ministry of Health, Sri Lanka. Annual health bulletin. 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