Global mental health principles and practice
Global health is an area for study, research and practice that places a priority on improving health and achieving equity in health for all people worldwide. Global mental health is the application of these principles to the domain of mental ill-health. The most striking inequity is that concerning...
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Oxford University Press
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- A brief history of global mental health / Alex Cohen
- Disorders, diagnosis and classification / Oye Gureje and Dan J. Stein
- Culture and global mental health / Laurence J. Kirmayer and Leslie Swartz
- Cross-cultural research methods and practice / Martin J. Prince
- The epidemiology and impact of mental disorders / Ronald C. Kessler, Jordi Alonso, Somnath Chatterji and Yanling He
- Mental health and the global health and development agendas / Martin J. Prince, Atif Rahman, Rosie Mayston and Benedict Weobong
- Social determinants of mental health / Crick Lund, Stephen Stansfield, and Mary De Silva
- Human security, complexity and mental health system development / Harry Minas
- Global mental health resources / Pallab K Maulik, Amy Daniels, Ryan McBain, Jodi Morris
- Strategies for strengthening human resource for mental health / Ritsuko Kakuma, Harry Minas, Mario R. Dal Poz
- Mental health promotion and the prevention of mental disorders / Inge Petersen, Margaret Barry, Crick Lund and Arvin Bhana
- Interventions for mental disorders / Charlotte Hanlon, Abebaw Fekadu and Vikram Patel
- Mental health policy development and implementation / Crick Lund, Jose Miguel Caldas de Almeida, Harvey Whiteford and John Mahoney
- Scaling up services for mental health / Julian Eaton, Mary DeSilva, Graciela Rojas and Vikram Patel
- Child and adolescent mental health / Christian Kieling, Ana Soledade Graeff-Martins, Hesham Hamoda, Luis Augusto Rohde
- Womens mental health / Jane Fisher, Helen Herrman, Meena Cabral de Mello and Prabha Chandra
- Mental health and psychosocial support in humanitarian settings / Wietse A. Tol, Pierre Bastin, Mark J.D. Jordans, Harry Minas, Renato Souza. Inka Weissbecker and Mark Van Ommeren
- Stigma, discrimination and promoting human rights / Nisha Mehta and Graham Thornicroft
- Research priorities, capacity and networks in global mental health / Pamela Y. Collins, Mark Tomlinson, Ritsuko Kakuma, Jude Awuba and Harry Minas
- Generating political commitment for mental health system development / Jose Miguel Caldas de Almeida, Harry Minas and Claudina Cayetanumber