Integrating mental health into primary health care in Nigeria: management of depression in a local government (district) area as a paradigm.

Background: In Nigeria, the primary health care (PHC) manned by non-physician health workers, forms the bedrock of the health care system. And mental health care has not yet been integrated into primary health care system.

Objective: To demonstrate how the training of primary health care workers in the recognition and management of depression can form an example of systematic integration of mental health into primary health care.