World Mental Health: Problems and Priorities in Low-Income Countries

Kleinman, Arthur;Desjarlais, Robert;Eisenberg, Leon;Good, Byron; Robert Desjarlais, Leon Eisenberg, Byron Good, and Arthur Kleinman

ISBN 10: 0195095405 / ISBN 13: 9780195095401

Published by Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford, 1995

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382 pp. Flawless book and dj.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: World Mental Health: Problems and Priorities in Low-Income Countries
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195095405
• ISBN 13: 9780195095401
• Binding: Hardcover
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Like New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Like New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Health, Medical & Mental Health, Hygiene
  • Academic, Scholarly, Research
  • Current Affairs, Current Events, Politics

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Synopsis

This timely volume describes the emergence of a crisis in world mental health. It analyzes the growing burden of mental, behavioral and social problems in low-income countries, examines the sources of the substantial morbidity rates and their relation to development, and assesses current efforts to cope with them. It identifies opportunities for effective mental health interventions, methods of treatment, culturally appropriate prevention programs, and sound policy formation. It relates the mental health consequences of violence, dislocation, poverty, and the disenfranchisement of women to the most pressing economic, political, and environmental problems of our time. Because many of the problems reviewed in this volume occur in both low-income and high-income societies, fruitful comparison and collaboration between North and South can lead to mental health policies that can be applied in many settings.
The book is the result of several years of collaboration between experts from more than 19 countries and researchers in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. The authors examine key findings on mental illness and mental health services; suicide; substance abuse; the mental health problems of women, children and the elderly; violence; dislocation; and health-related behavior in Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. They recommend new actions in mental health services, in public health and public policy, as well as an agenda for research. For all who are interested in the global context of mental health and in development, this very readable volume with its numerous case studies, illustrations and tables will be an invaluable resource.

About the Author

Robert Desjarlais, Department of Anthropology, Sarah Lawrence College.