Mental health response in Haiti in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake: a case study for building long-term solutions

G Raviola, E Eustache, C Oswald… - Harvard review of …, 2012 - journals.lww.com
Significant challenges exist in providing safe, effective, and culturally sound mental health
and psychosocial services when an unforeseen disaster strikes in a low‐resource setting.
We present here a case study describing the experience of a transnational team in
expanding mental health and psychosocial services delivered by two health care
organizations, one local (Zanmi Lasante) and one international (Partners in Health), acting
collaboratively as part of the emergency response to the 2010 Haiti earthquake. In the year …