This paper describes the phenomenon of Obeah and its influences on the worldview of life, health, illness; psychiatric conditions in the form of culture-bound syndromes; and help-seeking behaviors throughout Jamaican cultural communities. Inability to understand the obeah-illness concept from a ...
Center for Health, Culture and Society 1233 17th Avenue South Nashville, TN 37212, USA Dr. Sam O. Okpaku M.D., Ph.D. is an expert in Global Mental Health who has lived in countries across the world, including Nigeria, the UK, Israel, and the US. He has studied internal medicine, ...
Notably, in the last decade, there has been growing concerns about increasing mental health problems in the Caribbean region [22]. A regional study reporting data from nine Caribbean countries on adolescents age 10–18 indicated that 1 in 6 (17%) adolescents saw themselves as sad, angry or i...
Trauma in early childhood is a significant public health concern. Early childhood education and care (ECEC) services play a critical role in identifying an
“Wefocus a lot on language ... and culture… because this [mental health] is one area where people [lack] understanding.”— Alex Kalatu, mental health officer, International Rescue Committee. “[After training local volunteers in psychological first aid] we then see thatknowledge really transf...
A national response to ISO 15489: a case study of the Jamaican experience: a group of records management professionals in Jamaica joined forces to determin... Because of its colonial history, Jamaica has had a strong culture of recordkeeping-and here "recordkeeping" was taken literally, as the...
spiritual world.In the novel, the loss of ancient knowledge is seen as a major cause of thesemental and spiritual problems:“In the old culture, there would’ve been rites andrituals for you to control the gates. There were no rites or rituals done to help youcontrol the gates.”(Emezi...
Rubin and Kelly International Journal for Equity in Health (2015) 14:87 DOI 10.1186/s12939-015-0227-2 RESEARCH Open Access A cross-sectional investigation of parenting style and friendship as mediators of the relation between social class and mental health in a university community Mark Rubin* ...
(Lambert et al.,2012), and overeating can lead to obesity, a serious health concern (GBD 2015 Obesity Collaborators,2017). It is possible that these specific negative consequences are included in liking, which reflects the cumulative degree of positive consequences (e.g., relaxation: Brown & ...
a walk through his Jamaican heritage and upbringing in Birmingham; Shepherd Manyika whose work largely centres on experimental and socially engaged projects; and the filmmaker Michelle Williams-Gamaker, who focuses not only on themes of gender, capitalism and migration, but, aptly, ment...