The purpose of this thesis was to explore more about mental health and mental health nursing plus education in developing countries with more emphasis on Africa. The aim is to find out how mental health teaching can be promoted in developing countries and how to assist people with mental illness, have more productive and autonomous lifestyles since it is ignored.
The thesis was carried out using the literature review methodology. The authors used electronic search engines available at the Turku university of applied sciences website (Finna) and other search engines like Academic Search Elite (EBSCO), Cinahl complete, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, SAGE publications and E-Library. WHO Software used RefWorks for bibliography and for importing references. The other articles and journals used were the World Health Organisation (WHO 2016), psychiatric-mental health nursing education (PMHNE) programs that mainly focused on Botswana and Nigeria.
Mental illness cases are linked to imbalances of neural transmitters in the brain, Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) in certain parts of the socioeconomic factors like disease, political instability, violence and any other kind of addiction. The results show that there are poorly enacted policies directed towards mental health education by the policy makers in the various African countries. Secondly, the funds that are meant to be invested in the education of mental health in the various countries are not sufficient enough. Because of this, education for nurses is still poor.