PHA-Exchange> Mental health - Case studies and human interest stories for Global Watch

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> Dear friends
> 
> Case studies and human interest stories on mental health
> 
> The Global Health Watch provides an alternative assessment of the
> gross inequalities in health worldwide, "watches" the institutions of
> global health and development governance, and makes recommendations
> for new approaches to some of the most intractable health problems in
> the world today. 
> 
> We would like your assistance and input in writing and sourcing human
> interest stories written in a simple narrative style. Where it is not
> possible to integrate stories submitted within chapters, we will put
> them on the web site. We would like both positive and negative
> stories, successes and failures, etc.
> 
> The Mental Health chapter framework summary is below and more chapter
> frameworks are to follow.
> 
> More information on GHW can be found on www.ghwatch.org. Information
> on this and other case can be found on People’s Health Movement
> website  http://www.phmovement.org/ghwatch/ and the GHW website
> http://www.ghwatch.org/call_case_studies.php. 
> 
> Please submit case studies to ghw at hst.org.za. 
> Bridget Lloyd, Cape Town.
> 
FIND FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS at: http://www.phmovement.org/en/node/324

> Mental health chapter: briefing
> 
> 1     The range of mental health issues – a global pandemic? 
> 1.1 What is meant by mental health
> 1.2 The estimated extent of the problem
> 
> 2.0 Language, explanatory models and power 
> 
> 2.1 Perceptions of mental ill health (Western concepts and
> traditional)
> 2.2 Sense of self: Western cultural view of health (individualistic
> view of self) vs. other cultural traditions (prioritising connections
> and interrelationship). 
> 2.3 An example of cultural dominance: the PTSD debate- Responses to
> Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in the western and traditional
> contexts
> 
> 3.0 Responses to mental health issues globally: from hospital to
> shaman
> 3.1 The range of mental health services that exists (Western and
> traditional)
> 3.2 How services are changing and responding to globalisation,
> urbanisation, and other dynamics
> 
> 4.0 The rise of mental health in humanitarian aid programmes: a steep
> learning curve 
> 
> 5.0 Cure and care: building on local strategies A range of examples of
> appropriate and locally sensitive programmes.
> 
> 

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