Essentials of Global Mental Health

Description

Mental illness accounts directly for 14% of the global burden of disease and significantly more indirectly, and recent reports recognise the need to expand and improve mental health delivery on a global basis, especially in low and middle income countries. This text defines an approach to mental healthcare focused on the provision of evidence-based, cost-effective treatments, founded on the principles of sharing the best information about common problems and achieving international equity in coverage, options and outcomes. The coverage spans a diverse range of topics and defines five priority areas for the field. These embrace the domains of global advocacy, systems of development, research progress, capacity building, and monitoring. The book concludes by defining the steps to achieving equality of care globally. This is essential reading for policy makers, administrators, economists and mental health care professionals, and those from the allied professions of sociology, anthropology, international politics and foreign policy.

• Identifies the five priorities of global mental health enabling the reader to focus their efforts on those issues most crucial to the global mental health movement
• Written by a team of contributors with the widest international experience
• Showcases best practices that have been applied and tested, allowing readers to learn from successes and failures of real-life world programs

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.

Author

Samuel O. Okpaku, Vanderbilt University, Tennessee
Samuel O. Okpaku is Professor of Psychiatry and Executive Director of the Center for Health, Culture and Society at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA.