SAINT TONIS COLLEGE, INC.

United Church of Christ in the Philippines

Purok 4, Bulanao Centro, Tabuk City, Kalinga
Philippines 3800
Tel. No. (074) 627-5930, Email Address: sainttoniscollege@yahoo.com
COLLEGE OF NURSING

MENTAL HEALTH GAP ACTION PROGRAM

(mhGAP)
“What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, and more unashamed
conversation.”
– Glenn Close.

DIRECTIONS: Encircle the letter of the best answer.

1. Crucial to the overall well-being and related to the development countries.

a) Health
b) Mental health
c) Health care
d) Mental Health Gap Action Program (mhGAP))
2. It aims at scaling up services for mental, neurological and substance use disorders for
countries especially with low- and middle-income.
a) Mental Health Gap Action Program (mhGAP))
b) Mental health
c) Health
d) Health care
3. Which of the following is an Purpose of mhGAP-IG adaptation?
a) To reinforce the commitment of governments, international organizations, and
other stakeholders to increase the allocation of financial and human resources for
care of mental health substance use disorders.
b) To achieve much higher coverage with key interventions in the countries with low
and lower middle incomes that have a large proportion of the global burden of
mental health and substance use disorders.
c) To provide effective and humane care for all people with mental, neurological and
substance use disorders with the particular focus on the poor and the vulnerable
one’s in low and middle-income countries by providing service delivery, reducing
the treatment gap and increasing financial and human resources for mental health
care
d) To provide a basis for the development of appropriate training programmes and
tools
4. Which of the following is NOT an objective of mhGAP?
a) To achieve much higher coverage with key interventions in the countries with low
and lower middle incomes that have a large proportion of the global burden of
mental health and substance use disorders.
b) To provide effective and humane care for all people with mental, neurological and
substance use disorders with the particular focus on the poor and the vulnerable
one’s in low and middle-income countries by providing service delivery, reducing
the treatment gap and increasing financial and human resources for mental health
care
c) To reinforce the commitment of governments, international organizations, and
other stakeholders to increase the allocation of financial and human resources for
care of mental health substance use disorders.\
5. What is the vision of mhGAP?
a) To provide effective and humane care for all people with mental, neurological and
substance use disorders with the particular focus on the poor and the vulnerable
one’s in low and middle-income countries by providing service delivery, reducing
the treatment gap and increasing financial and human resources for mental health
care

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TEAM SOYOSOY DI DAGEM
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN NURSING II-B
COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING LECTURE
 SAINT TONIS COLLEGE, INC.
United Church of Christ in the Philippines
Purok 4, Bulanao Centro, Tabuk City, Kalinga
Philippines 3800
Tel. No. (074) 627-5930, Email Address: sainttoniscollege@yahoo.com
COLLEGE OF NURSING
b) To achieve much higher coverage with key interventions in the countries with low
and lower middle incomes that have a large proportion of the global burden of
mental health and substance use disorders.
c) To reinforce the commitment of governments, international organizations, and
other stakeholders to increase the allocation of financial and human resources for
care of mental health substance use disorders.
6. Through the objectives, MHGAP provides evidenced-based guidance and tools to
advance toward achieving the targets of the mental health action plan 2016-2019.
a) Kunam garud
b) True
c) Maybe
d) False
7. Through the MhGap, _______ aims to provide health planners, policy makers, and
donors with a set of clear and coherent activities and programmes for scaling up care.
a) DOH
b) WHO
c) UNILAB
d) UN
8. What does MNS stands for?
a) Mental, National Service
b) Mental, Neuroscience Society
c) Mental, Neurological and Substance use
d) Mental. Neurotically Service
9. The program asserts that with proper care, psychosocial assistance and medication, tens
of millions could be treated for depression, schizophrenia, and epilepsy, prevented from
suicide and begin to lead normal lives– even where resources are scarce.
a) Health
b) Mental health
c) Health care
d) Mental Health Gap Action Program (mhGAP)
10. To provide effective and humane care for all people with mental, neurological and
substance use disorders with the particular focus on the poor and the vulnerable one’s in
low and middle-income countries by providing service delivery, reducing the treatment
gap and increasing financial and human resources for mental health care. Is the mission
of mhGAP.
a) True
b) False
c) Maybe
d) I choose not to answer
11. . It attempts to deliver an integrated package of interventions, and takes into account
existing and possible barriers to scaling up care.
a) Priority conditions
b) Strategies
c) Intervention package
d) Scaling up
12. a deliberate effort to increase the impact of health-service interventions that have been
successfully tested in pilot projects so that they will benefit more people, and to foster
sustainable development of policies and programs.
a) Priority conditions
b) Strategies
c) Intervention package
d) Scaling up

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TEAM SOYOSOY DI DAGEM
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN NURSING II-B
COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING LECTURE
 SAINT TONIS COLLEGE, INC.
United Church of Christ in the Philippines
Purok 4, Bulanao Centro, Tabuk City, Kalinga
Philippines 3800
Tel. No. (074) 627-5930, Email Address: sainttoniscollege@yahoo.com
COLLEGE OF NURSING
13. A disease area can be considered a priority if it represents a large burden (in terms of
mortality, morbidity or disability), has high economic costs, or is associated with
violations of human rights.
a) Priority conditions
b) Strategies
c) Scaling up
d) Intervention package
14. Considerable information about the cost effectiveness of various interventions for
reduction of the burden of MNS disorders is now available.
a) Priority conditions
b) Strategies
c) Scaling up
d) Intervention package
15. The fifth barrier to development of mental health services, which relates to organization
of services, is the complexity of integrating mental health care effectively with primary
care services.
a) True
b) False
c) Maybe
d) I choose not to answer
16. A major barrier is likely to be the lack of effective public health leadership for mental
health in most countries.
a) True
b) False
c) Maybe
d) I choose not to answer
17. The following are frameworks for country actions, EXCEPT ONE.
a) mhGAP aims to provide a framework for scaling up interventions.
b) The framework takes into account the various constraints existing in different
countries.
c) Consideration of obstacles that hinder the widespread implementation of the
selected interventions, and the options that are available to deal with these
obstacles
d) It is only intended as a guide for action, and should be flexible and adaptable
enough to be implemented according to the different situation
18. The following are keys stakeholders of political commitment, EXCEPT.
a) policy-makers,
b) programme managers from relevant areas (such as essential medicines and human
resources), communication experts,
c) experts from community development and health systems.
d) Accountants
19. What is the framework to assist & create policies and plans, to put them into practice?
a) Guidance Package
b) Journal
c) Data
d) Information
20. Critical to ensure maximum impact, high quality, and equitable coverage of the
interventions.
a) Integration at primary health care
b) Delivery of the intervention package
c) Strengthening of human resources
d) Mobilization of financial resources
21. The goal– to get the right workers with the right skills in the right place doing the right
things

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TEAM SOYOSOY DI DAGEM
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN NURSING II-B
COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING LECTURE
 SAINT TONIS COLLEGE, INC.
United Church of Christ in the Philippines
Purok 4, Bulanao Centro, Tabuk City, Kalinga
Philippines 3800
Tel. No. (074) 627-5930, Email Address: sainttoniscollege@yahoo.com
COLLEGE OF NURSING
a) Integration at primary health care
b) Delivery of the intervention package
c) Strengthening of human resources
d) Mobilization of financial resources

22. Health systems will need additional support to deliver the interventions. (The drugs,
equipment, and supplies) & their sustained supply.
a) Integration at primary health care
b) Delivery of the intervention package
c) Strengthening of human resources
d) Mobilization of financial resources
23. The following are the key actions of strengthening of human resources. EXCEPT
a) Appropriate training of different cadres of health professionals
b) Improvement of access to information and knowledge
c) Development of simpler diagnostic and treatment tools
d) Integration into existing services; strengthening of health system
24. Fundamental to mhGAP is the establishment of productive partnerships – i.e. to reinforce
existing partners, attract and energize new partners, accelerate efforts, and increase
investments to reduce the burden of these disorders.
a) Improvement of access to information and knowledge
b) Development of simpler diagnostic and treatment tools
c) Integration into existing services; strengthening of health system
d) Building partnertship
25. Most countries do not assign adequate financial resources for care of MNS disorders; no
specific budget
a) Integration into existing services; strengthening of health system
b) Building partnership
c) Mobilization of financial resources
d) Monitoring and evaluation
26. The following are actions required of Development of a policy and legislative
infrastructure. EXCEPT
a) Incorporate existing knowledge about improvement of treatment and care and
prevention of these disorders;
b) Involve all relevant stakeholders;
c) Develop means for implementation of the policy
d) Design for implementing interventions at different levels of the health system
27. The following are key considerations for delivery of the intervention package. EXCEPT
a) Design for implementing interventions at different levels of the health system;
b) Integration into existing services; strengthening of health system
c) implementation strategies to achieve high coverage strategies to reach populations
with special needs &special situations, such as emergencies
d) Draft or revise policy to set out its vision, values, and principles, its objectives,
and key areas for action
28. The following are task of assessments of needs and resources. EXCEPT
a) Describe the status of the burden of MNS, resource requirements
b) Examine the coverage and quality of essential interventions, reasons for low or
ineffective coverage;
c) Synthesize the information to highlight important gaps that must be addressed for
scaling up care
d) AMDAS analysis.
29. The greatest barrier to development of mental health services has been the absence of
mental health from the public health priority agenda.
a) True

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TEAM SOYOSOY DI DAGEM
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN NURSING II-B
COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING LECTURE
 SAINT TONIS COLLEGE, INC.
United Church of Christ in the Philippines
Purok 4, Bulanao Centro, Tabuk City, Kalinga
Philippines 3800
Tel. No. (074) 627-5930, Email Address: sainttoniscollege@yahoo.com
COLLEGE OF NURSING
b) False
c) Maybe
d) I choose not to answer
30. Another barrier identified was organization of services. Mental health resources are
centralized in and near big cities and in large institutions.
a) True
b) False
c) Maybe
d) I choose not to answer
ANSWER KEY
1. B 11. B 21. C
2. A 12. D 22. A
3. D 13. A 23. D
4. B 14. D 24. D
5. A 15. B 25. C
6. D 16. A 26. D
7. B 17. C 27. D
8. C 18. D 28. D
9. D 19. A 29. A
10. B 20. B 30. A

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TEAM SOYOSOY DI DAGEM
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN NURSING II-B
COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING LECTURE