21st Century Global Mental Health

by Sorel, Dr Eliot

• ISBN13: 9781449627874
• ISBN10: 1449627870
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-08-28
• Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning

Summary

Nearly five hundred million people worldwide suffer from neuropsychiatric disorders, representing, in aggregate, 14% of the global burden of disease in low, middle and high income countries. Yearly, nearly 900,000 people commit suicide worldwide. Although there have been notable scientific advances in the global mental health domain, challenges still remain in knowledge transmission and application, as well as in access to care and in eradicating shame, stigma, and discrimination.21st Century Global Mental Health serves as a reliable and authoritative text on the subject of global mental health and its integration with public health and primary care. The book thoroughly examines the progress to date and the challenges that still remain. In five sections, it explores: Epidemiology, the global burden of disease & diagnostic systems The determinants of health/mental health Populations#146; health/mental health Evaluating & strengthening health/mental health systems Health/mental health policy & financing21st Century Global Mental Health is an equally valuable resource for graduate students, educators and practitioners in public health, mental health and primary care as well as a reference text for policymakers. Grounded in theory, the book uses a systemic, systematic, collaborative and integrative approach and offers practical applications and implementations relevant to education and training, services, research, and policy.

Table of Contents

Preface1 Preface
Section1 Global Mental Health Epidemiology and Diagnostic Systems
Chapter1 Global Mental Health Epidemiology By Ronald C. Kessler, PhD, Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, MD, PhD, Jordi Alonso, MD, PhD, Somnath Chatterji, MD, Yanling He, MD, Steve Heeringa, PhD, Sing Lee, MB, BS, FRCPsych, and Johan Ormel, MA, PhD
Chapter2 Comparison Between ICD and DSM Diagnostic Systems for Mental Disorders By David Goldberg, DM, MSc, FRCP, FRCPsych
Chapter3 New Directions in Diagnosis Research Domain Criteria and Global Mental Health By Bruce N. Cuthbert, PhD, and Thomas R. Insel, MD
Section2 Determinants of Health and Mental Health
Chapter5 Culture, Biology, and Psychopharmacology By Keh-Ming Lin, MD, MPH, and Wen-Ling Lin, PhD
Chapter6 Family, Psychosocial, and Cultural Determinants of Health By Vincenzo Di Nicola, MPhil, MD, PhD, FRCPC, FAPA
Section3 Health and Mental Health of Populations
Chapter7 Child Mental Health in the 21st Century: Universal Challenges By Myron L. Belfer, MD, MPA
Chapter8 Global Disasters, War, Conflict, and Complex Emergencies:Caring for Special Populations By Allen R. Dyer, MD, PhD, and Subhasis Bhadra, MSW, PhD
Chapter9 Attending to the Needs of the Severely and Persistently Mentally Ill By Tom K. J. Craig, MBBS, PhD, FRCPsych
Chapter10 Mental Health and HIV in Africa By Bibilola Damilola Oladeji, MBBS, MSc, FSACP, and Oye Gureje, MBBS, PhD, DSc, FRCPsych
Section4 Evaluating and Strengthening Health and Mental Health Systems
Chapter11 Integrating Mental Health into Primary Care:Lessons from the Experience of Chile By Alberto Minoletti, MD, FRCPS, Graciela Rojas, Dr. Med., and Marcela Horvitz-Lennon, MD, MPH
Chapter12 Reforming the Mental Health System: The Balanced Care Model of Community-Based Services on the Continuum of Mental Health Care By Michele Tansella, MD, and Graham Thornicroft, MB, BS, MSc, PhD, FRPsych
Chapter13 Mental Health System Development: The International Observatory of Mental Health Systems By Harry Minas, MBBS, BMedSc, DPM, FRANZCP
Section5 Humans Rights, Stigma, Mental Health Policy, and the Media
Chapter14 Stigma, Discrimination, and Human Rights By Julio Arboleda-Flórez, MD, PhD, FRCPC, DABFP, and Heather Stuart, MA, PhD
Chapter15 Recent Trends in Mental Health Policy in the United States By Ronald W. Manderscheid, PhD
Chapter16 Mental Health Policy and the Media By Rebecca G. Palpant, MS, Jane E. Bigham, MPH, and Thomas H. Bornemann, EdD