[Barriers and facilitators in seeking mental health care by youth in Suriname].

Background: Worldwide there is an imbalance in the need for mental help for young people versus actually receiving this help. This has been researched in western countries, it has not been well researched in developing countries.

Objective: To gain insight into the (specific) barriers and facilitators among young people seeking help in Suriname.

General Demographics and Behavioral Patterns of Visitors Using a Self-help Website for Identification of and Intervention in Alcoholism and Common Mental Disorders in Suriname: Descriptive Study.

Background: Digital health applications have been shown to be an accepted means to provide mental health information and advice in various high- and middle-income countries. Started in 2015, ehealth.sr was the first website to offer preventive information, self-tests, and unguided digital self-help for depression, anxiety symptoms, and problematic alcohol use in Suriname, an upper middle-income country in South America.

A survey of depression and anxiety disorders in urban and rural Suriname.

Background: Suriname is a Low-middle income country consisting of diverse population groups. Epidemiological studies concerning mental disorders like depression and anxiety had not been conducted until 2015. The treatment gap for mental disorders in Low and middle-income countries (LMICs) may reach 76-80% as treatment is not always readily available.

Prevalence of substance use disorders in an urban and a rural area in Suriname.

Background: Alcohol use disorders (AUD) have the worst impact in low-middle-income countries (LMICs), where the disease burden per liter of alcohol consumed is higher than in wealthy populations. Furthermore, the median treatment gap for AUDs in LMICs is 78.1%.

Using practitioners' feedback to contribute to organisational development in health visiting.

This paper presents the findings of a survey of practitioners within a health visiting service. This service was an Early Implementer site for the Health Visitor Implementation Plan. The survey was administered in the context of training all practitioners in the Solihull Approach.