Mental Health In Global Policies
What ambitious plan for sustainable human development was endorsed by all United Nations member states in 2015 in a departure from the Millennium Development Goal?
What is the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)?
What key social determinant, as discussed in Lund, 2018 “Social determinants of mental disorders and the Sustainable Development Goals: a systematic review of reviews” often affects many communities in LMIC?
What is poverty?
What argument does Mnookin make regarding mental health and global development?
What is that mental health should be prioritized as a critical aspect of global development?
Howell, Mills, and Rushton (2017) critiqued the use of these strategies in mental health advocacy.
What is HIV/AIDS advocacy strategies?
The challenge of using a one mode model of mental health for diverse populations is often termed this?
What is homogenization?
According to Mills (2018) Which three axes contributed to the prioritization of mental health in the SDGs?
the global burden of disease, economic burden of mental health, and the relationship between mental health and poverty
Why is the intersection of social determinants and SDGs important for mental health advocacy?
What is it helps address the root causes of mental health issues rather than just treating symptoms
What two common disorders due to stigma and inadequate funding are not being treated in most primary care and community settings?
What is depression and anxiety?
In the Howell et al (2017) article the authors suggest three lessons from analyzing HIV/AIDS advocacy strategies? Name one out of the three
What is...
1. conceptualize disease and distress as multiple and localized epidemics
2. move away from top-down global prescriptions and emphasize not only pharmaceutical solutions but also the promotion of social justice and material well being.
3. promote meaningful non-tokenistic involvement, leadership and decision-making of those who have expertise through experience (such as users and survivors).
What concern does Mills and Fernando raise about framing mental health as a global issue?
What is it may lead to overlooking local and cultural beliefs and practices of healing?
What are the two causal pathways between poverty and mental ill health mentioned in Mills, C. (2018). From ‘invisible problem’ to global priority: The inclusion of mental health in the Sustainable Development Goals ?
What is social drift and social causation?
In Lundt et al what are the five key domains of the social determinants of mental disorders that are discussed?
What is demographic, economic, neighbourhood, environmental, and social and culture?
As discussed in the Mnookin article what are the two main reasons for impoverishment at the household level and diminished economic growth and social well being at the national level?
1. lost economic output caused by untreated mental disorders as a result of diminished productivity at work, reduced rates of labor participation, foregone tax receipts, and increased welfare payments.
2. the two-way relationship that exists between mental disorders and unhealthy behaviors such as poor diet and physical inactivity.
Getting mental health on the global health and international development agendas have relied on the two-pronged strategy of...
What is...?
1. likening mental health to infectious disease and;
2. explicitly modeling GMH advocacy on HIV/AIDS
advocacy.
Mills & Fernando (2014) argue that globalization can lead to this negative consequence in mental health practices
What is pathologization?