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21st Century Global Mental Health

Author(s): Dr Eliot Sorel, Professor, George Washington University, Wash DC, Washington D.C.
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  • ISBN-13: 9781449627874
  • Paperback    400 pages      © 2013
  • Will Publish: 8/1/2012
Price: International Sales $77.95 US List
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Overview

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’ health/mental health
  • Evaluating & strengthening health/mental health systems
  • Health/mental health policy & financing

21st 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.

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Preface  1  Preface
  Section  I  Epidemiology, Global Burden of Disease, Diagnostic Systems
    Chapter  1  Global Mental Health Epidemiology By Ronald C. Kessler, Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, Jordi Alonso, Somnath Chatterji, Yanling He,Steve Heeringa, Sing Lee, Johan Ormel
    Chapter  2  Comparison Between ICD and DSM Diagnostic Systems for Mental Disorders By David Goldberg
    Chapter  3  New Directions in Diagnosis Research Domain Criteria and Global Mental Health by Bruce N. Cuthbert and Thomas R. Insel
  Section  II  Determinants of Health/Mental Health
    Chapter  4  The Social Determinants of Mental Health By David Satcher,Martha Okafor,Joyce H. Nottingham
    Chapter  5  Culture, Ethnicity, and Psychopharmacology By Keh-Ming Lin, Wen-Ling Lin
    Chapter  6  Family, Psychosocial, and Cultural Determinants of Health By Vincenzo Di Nicola
  Section  III  Populations’ Mental Health
    Chapter  7  Child Mental Health in the 21st Century: Universal Challenges By Myron L. Belfer
    Chapter  8  Global Disasters, War, Conflict, Complex Emergencies: Caring for Special Populations By Allen R. Dyer and Subhasis Bhadra
    Chapter  9  Attending to the Needs of the Severely and Persistently Mentally Ill By Tom K. J. Craig
    Chapter  10  Mental Health and HIV in Africa By Bibilola Damilola Oladeji and Oye Gureje
    Chapter  11  Substance Abuse and Mental Health in Africa By Solomon Rataemane, Monika dos Santos, and Lusanda Rataemane
  Section  IV  Evaluating and Strengthening Health/Mental Health Systems
    Chapter  12  Integrating Mental Health into Primary Care: Lessons from the Experience of Chile By Alberto Minoletti , Graciela Rojas , Marcela Horvitz-Lennon
    Chapter  13  Re – Forming the Mental Health System (The Balanced Care Model of Community-Based Services on the Continuum of Mental Health Care)By Michele Tansella and Graham Thornicroft
    Chapter  14  Mental Health System Development: The International Observatory of Mental Health Systems By Harry Minas
  Section  V  Health/Mental Health Policy and Financing
    Chapter  15  Stigma, Discrimination, and Human Rights By Julio Arboleda-Flórez and Heather Stuart
    Chapter  17  Recent Trends in Mental Health Policy in the United States By Ronald W. Manderscheid
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Dr Eliot Sorel-Professor, George Washington University, Wash DC, Washington D.C.

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