Essentials of global mental health /
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| Imprint: | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014. |
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| Description: | xxi, 446 pages ; 26 cm |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cambridge medicine Cambridge medicine. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10042960 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I. History and Background to Global Mental Health
- 1. History of global mental health
- 2. Burden of illness
- 3. Trends and gaps in mental health disparities
- 4. Global health and mental health as diplomacy
- 5. Global mental health and the United Nations
- Part II. Advocacy and Reduction of Stigma
- 6. Voice of user survivor
- 7. Lecture on internalized stigma
- 8. Definition and process of stigma
- 9. Stigmatization and exclusion
- 10. Grassroots mental health movements
- 11. The rise of consumerism and local advocacy
- 12. Programs to reduce stigma in HIV/AIDS, mental illness and epilepsy
- Part III. Systems of Development
- 13. The challenges of human resources in low and middle income countries
- 14. Integration of mental health services in primary care settings
- 15. Collaboration between traditional and Western practitioners
- 16. Setting up an integrated mental health system
- Part IV. Systems of Development for Special Populations
- 17. Poverty and perinatal morbidity as risk factors for mental illness
- 18. Maternal mental health care: refining the components in a South African setting
- 19. Screening for developmental disabilities in epidemiologic studies in low and middle income countries
- 20. Child services
- 21. Child abuse as a global mental health problem
- 22. Child soldiers
- 23. Mental health and intellectual disability: implications for global mental health
- 24. Adolescent alcohol and substance abuse
- 25. Developing intervention in low resource contexts
- Part V. Gender and Equality
- 26. Strategies to reduce women's mental illness and increase attention to women's mental health
- 27. Violence against women
- 28. Women and global mental health: vulnerability and empowerment
- 29. Trafficking in persons
- Part VI. Human Resources and Capacity Building
- 30. Capacity building
- 31. Use of allied professionals
- 32. Mental health and illness in conflict areas
- 33. Implications of disasters for global mental health
- 34. International response to natural and manmade disasters
- 35. Global health governance and international law, and mental health
- 36. The role of NGOs
- 37. Mental health, mass communication and media
- Part VII. Suicide and Violence
- 38. Suicide and depression
- 39. Violence as a public health problem
- 40. Setting up integrated mental health systems: the case of Cuba
- 41. The war on drugs - the US, Mexico and Central American countries and Plan Colombia and Merida
- Part VIII. Research and Monitoring Progress of Countries
- 42. Medical education and global mental health
- 43. Research priorities for mental health in low and middle income countries (LMIC)
- 44. Research infrastructure
- 45. Monitoring progress of countries
- Epilogue
- Index
