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The Social Construction of Loneliness and Global Public Health
Published in Vincent La Placa, Julia Morgan, Social Science Perspectives on Global Public Health, 2023
Vincent La Placa, Julia Morgan
Loneliness now constitutes a significant research and policy issue in global health, largely because of its link to negative mental health outcomes. This has accentuated the limited resources and policies towards global mental health previously, in comparison to the burden it engenders, generally. Others have argued for a deeper understanding, rooted in structured and unequal relationships in society, which further cause stress to already marginalised people (Sagan, 2018) and are less grounded in individual psychology.
Mental Health and Healthy Aging – Prevention and Management
Published in Goh Cheng Soon, Gerard Bodeker, Kishan Kariippanon, Healthy Ageing in Asia, 2022
The Lancet Commission on Global Mental Health and Sustainable Development (2018) reported that: Despite substantial research advances showing what can be done to prevent and treat mental disorders and to promote mental health, translation into real-world effects has been painfully slow. The global burden of disease attributable to mental disorders has risen in all countries in the context of major demographic, environmental, and socio-political transitions.Patel et al. (2018, p. 1553)
Mental Health and Psychosocial Support
Published in Miriam Orcutt, Clare Shortall, Sarah Walpole, Aula Abbara, Sylvia Garry, Rita Issa, Alimuddin Zumla, Ibrahim Abubakar, Handbook of Refugee Health, 2021
Peter Ventevogel, Benedicte Duchesne, Peter Hughes, Claire Whitney
The design of mental health interventions for refugees should take into account factors that negatively affect mental health and those that foster resilience and recovery. Many within refugee mental health have therefore argued that interventions cannot rely only on narrow biomedical or psychological models of distress but should be broadened to include actions to help refugees meet their basic needs and strengthen social and family support.38–41 However, the research literature around refugee mental health and global mental health is skewed towards individual support through case management and therapeutic interventions, at the expense of community-focused social interventions that engage individuals, families and whole communities in facilitating them to adapt in response to adversity.29,42 The ‘multi-layered intervention pyramid’ in the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Guidelines on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings6 is a helpful tool to show how interventions on different levels need to be implemented in concert in order to create synergistic effects (see Figure 10.1.1), with the layers discussed in the following.
Depression and PrEP uptake, interruption, and adherence among young women in Uganda
Published in AIDS Care, 2023
Yasaman Zia, Lydia Nambala, Randy M. Stalter, Timothy R. Muwonge, Timothy Ssebuliba, Agnes Nakyanzi, Olivia Nampewo, Jade Boyer, Susan Morrison, Rogers Nsubuga, Monica Bagaya, Robert Nyanzi, Flavia Matovu, Michael Yin, Christina Wyatt, Andrew Mujugira, Renee Heffron
Depression is the most common cause of disability and morbidity globally (Depression and Other Common Mental Disorders: Global Health Estimates, 2017). The World Health Organization Global Burden of Disease report estimated depression to disproportionately impact women across all global regions and all age groups (Depression and Other Common Mental Disorders: Global Health Estimates, 2017). In some settings, gendered power dynamics, including women’s experiences with less health decision making power and access to financial resources, may limit women’s ability to seek and receive care for depression (Morgan et al., 2017). In addition, there is severe lack of funding for global mental health care. Data focusing on mental health in Africa are scarce (Molodynski et al., 2017; Sankoh et al., 2018) and studies from Uganda have described the prevalence of depression among fishing communities and sex workers (Fischer et al., 2019; Nabunya et al., 2021; Ssebunnya et al., 2019; Vancampfort et al., 2019), but depression among Ugandan adolescents and young adults has not been well characterized.
Kink-Oriented People and Exogenous Oppressions: Understanding Mental Health and Related Service Use in a Rural Context
Published in Journal of Homosexuality, 2023
Tamara D. Reynish, Ha Hoang, Heather Bridgman, Bróna Nic Giolla Easpaig
Global mental health research is increasingly exploring the disparities that marginalized populations experience. Subsequently, there have been calls to decrease the barriers to psychological care of stigma, discrimination, and inadequate professionals and services (Wainberg et al., 2017). Despite the prevalence of the topic of kink in academic circles, explorations of rural kink-oriented people’s mental health and service usage, barriers, and facilitators to psychological care remain limited. Related explorations in the Tasmanian context are, to our knowledge, hithertofore non-existent. Therefore, this study aims to explore research questions regarding personal experiences with mental health help seeking; uptake prevalence and barriers and facilitators to help seeking; and participant-determined best practices for care.
Can routine Primary Care Records Help in Detecting Suicide Risk? A Population-Based Case-Control Study in Barcelona
Published in Archives of Suicide Research, 2022
Marc Fradera, Dan Ouchi, Oriol Prat, Rosa Morros, Carles Martin-Fumadó, Diego Palao, Narcís Cardoner, Maria Teresa Campillo, Víctor Pérez-Solà, Caridad Pontes
Up to 80% of subjects contact primary care services during the last year prior to suicide, and from 45% to 66% do so in the month prior, so that placing suicide prevention strategies and interventions within the primary health care setting is important (Andersen, Andersen, Rosholm, & Gram, 2000; Stene-Larsen & Reneflot, 2019; Turecki & Brent, 2016; World Health Organization, 2013, 2014). A pilot study showed that less than 40% of healthcare professionals assess suicide risk in these last contacts and all of them fail to detect this risk despite the assessment (Draper, Snowdon, & Wyder, 2008). One of the WHO proposed actions to improve global mental health considers to integrate mental health into the routine health information system in order to improve prevention strategies (World Health Organization, 2013). Many of the already known risk factors (Cavanagh et al., 2003; Stene-Larsen & Reneflot, 2019; Turecki & Brent, 2016; World Health Organization, 2013, 2014, 2018) may be already available in the patient’s primary care routine medical records; also, other characteristics of patient’s interactions with the healthcare system may be able to detect subjects at risk (Stene-Larsen & Reneflot, 2019), and may be retrieved using data readily available in primary healthcare.