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The major purpose of this chapter is to identify and describe community-based mental health interventions in Rwanda and to illuminate their evolution and current function in preventing and treating mental health problems, while promoting healing and restorative mental health practices, especially in light...
The technical advisory group of the World Health Organization (Geneva, Switzerland) has suggested person-centered and community-based mental health services in response to the long-term and far-reaching mental health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Task shifting is a pragmatic approach to tackle...
Factors associated with poor mental health among Guatemalan refugees living in Mexico 20 years after civil conflict. JAMA. 2003;290:635-64212902367Google ScholarCrossref 23. Pham PN, Weinstein HM, Longman T. Trauma and PTSD symptoms in Rwanda: implications for attitudes toward justice and ...
Dr. Yvonne Kayiteshonga, the Division Manager of Mental Health Division said, “We have a unique history as a country that went through the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, there are still mental health issues that are related to the Genocide against the Tutsi. However, in Rwanda, we have...
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Partners In Health (PIH) works to expand mental health care from institutional treatment to community systems, meeting people where they live. Our mission is to provide a preferential option for the poor in health care. For mental health, this means raising the standard of care by integrating ...
Beyond individual repercussions, childhood and adolescent mental health problems could lead to economic burden on the societal level [8]. Given the high prevalence rates of mental health conditions in childhood and adolescence [5], and the potentially negative consequences of such conditions, the need...
Roughly 80 percent of people with mental illness live in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). This inductive analysis examines the ways power and the struggle for public authority affect mental health care in the LMIC of Tanzania. It investigates two mental health approaches: the biomedical ...