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ISBN Number: 9780195113112
Subtitle: Problems and Priorities in Low-Income Countries
Editor: Desjarlais, Robert
Editor: Kleinman, Arthur
Editor: Desjarlais, Robert
Editor: Eisenberg, Leon
Written by: Desjarlais
Written by: Desjarlais, Robert
Editor: Eisenberg, Leon
Editor: Kleinman, Arthur
Published by: Oxford University Press, USA
Filed Under: Public Health
Filed Under: Psychology
Filed Under: Medical sciences
Filed Under: Mental health
Filed Under: Psychopathology, General
Filed Under: Psychiatry, General
Filed Under: Medicine | Psychiatry
Filed Under: Medicine | Psychiatry and Psychology
Date of Publication: August 1996
Cover Type: Paperback
Grade Level: Professional and scholarly
Written in: English
Illustrations: 9 illus.
Number of Pages: 400
Book Size: 9.26x6.15x.79 in. 1.30 lbs.
"This Report puts the issue of mental health and well-being firmly on the international agenda. It reminds us of the great human suffering caused by mental illness....Let us, therefore, respond to this World Mental Health Report not simply by blessing it; let us take its recommendations, and act on them."--Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Secretary General of the United Nations,
Synopsis:
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.
