Abstract: The global mental health movement has the mission to reduce the gap between the burden of mental illness and the availability of effective mental health services. This mission entails advocating for increased funding for mental health services and personnel, expanding research to develop evidence‐based practices for low‐resource settings. It has been proposed that this can be accomplished by advocating for increased funding for mental health services and personnel, expanding research to determine evidence‐based mental health treatments, development of government mental health policies, and advancing the human rights of persons with mental illness. Key topics from medical anthropology related to global mental health include universalism versus cultural relativism in psychopathology; culture‐bound syndromes and cultural concepts of distress; healing, belief, and meaning in ethnomedical traditions; critique of psychiatry and social–political–economic construction of labels; social suffering and structural violence; humanitarian disasters, complex emergencies, and the mental health and psychosocial support movement; and definitions of culture.
Publication Year: 2018
Publication Date: 2018-09-05
Language: en
Type: other
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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