The South Asian region is one of biggest providers of specialist mental health human resources to rich countries, but paradoxically mental health systems in this region are highly inadequately resourced which has resulted in a huge treatment gap of around 90%. In this chapter, we review the ...
With the interest of the [Make America Healthy Again] movement around food, it will be important to see if this fight will be taken up by President Trump and Congress. We face a national nutrition crisis — for me the top challenge, and opportunity, for the country. We already invest hun...
Third, to present a set of concrete policy recommendations that appear congruent with the latest discourse on violence and are grounded in a public health practice designed to enable intersectoral collaboration around the prevention of violence in South Africa. Violence in Twentieth Century South Africa...
A baseline synthesis of key findings from reviewed studies and guidelines provides a core observation that the rare disease management and orphan drug research landscape needs to be developed around four key areas: Understanding disease characteristics and timely identification of anomalies. Addressing patie...
Therefore, if there is any long-term difference in fertility between the two groups, it must be due to the different benefits they received for the child born around the time of the reform. The future-child effect refers to the effect of a greater amount of leave available in the future....
The SDGs provide an operational framework to consider urbanization globally, while providing local mechanisms for action and careful attention to closing the gaps in the distribution of health gains. While health and well-being are explicitly addressed in SDG 3, health is also present as a pre ...
The aim of mental health legislation is to protect persons with mental illness by setting out a framework that allows others, namely, service providers, to intervene for the sake of the safety of the individual and the safety of those around them. There is a worry that people who experience...
(before; 6.018 ± 0.319, after; 8.119 ± 0.228, unpaired t = 2.554,p = 0.0189) increased significantly around 2018, when UKRI promoted the gender dimension40. This shows that funding policies have a direct and significant impact on research outputs, demonstrating the ...
Public support for climate policies is important for their efficacy, yet little is known about how different framings of climate change affect public support for climate policies around the world. Here we report findings from a conjoint experiment of 7,500 adults in five countries – China, Germa...
"This paper demonstrates that our policies around schizophrenia may be penny-wise and pound foolish," says Dana Goldman, director of the Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics at the University of Southern California. "Limiting access to effective therapy may save States some Me...