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

ISBN-13: 9780195113112 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 400 str.

Robert Desjarlais; Robert Desjarlais; Leon Eisenberg

Opis

This timely volume 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.

Recenzje

The authors provide scholarly documentation of the epidemiology, anthropology, and consequences of the major mental health and behavioural problems that form an increasing part of the health burden around the world. Throughout, the book emphasizes the need to recognize and be sensitive to the role of culture and local institutions. The arguments and calls to action are hortatory but logical and convincing, and they follow from the material presented. Because each chapter is self-contained, the book can be read starting at any point, depending on one's interests. Whether readers are oriented quantitatively or qualitatively, they can enjoy and be informed by any or all of the chapters. The book is well written and carefully documented, with extensive notes and references.