Mental Health In Bangladesh

Author : Alyson Callan
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857454881

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Patients and Agents by Alyson Callan Pdf

Sylhet, the area of Bangladesh most closely associated with overseas migration, has seen an increase in remittances sent home from abroad, introducing new inequalities. Social change has also been mediated by the global forces of Western biomedicine and orthodox Islam. This book examines the effects of these modernizing trends on mental health and on local, traditional healing as the new inequalities have exacerbated existing social tensions and led to increased vulnerability to mental illness. It is the young women of Sylhet who are most affected. The global economy has increased competition for resources and led to marriage being seen as a route to economic advancement. Parents prefer to give their daughters in marriage to families that will widen their social contacts and enhance their economic and social standing. Accordingly, the young wife's outsider status (and hence vulnerability to mental illness) has increased as it is no longer customary to give daughters in marriage to local kin. Yet, patients and their families do not work out tensions passively. They are active agents in the construction of their own diagnosis. The extent to which patients act or are acted upon is an investigation that runs throughout the book. Alyson Callan is a psychiatrist and anthropologist. She currently works as a consultant psychiatrist in Brent for the Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust.

Author : S. M. Yasir Arafat
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789819706105

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Mental Health in Bangladesh by S. M. Yasir Arafat Pdf

Author : Papalois, Vassilios E.,Theodosopoulou, Maria
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781522540755

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Optimizing Health Literacy for Improved Clinical Practices by Papalois, Vassilios E.,Theodosopoulou, Maria Pdf

Scientific evidence from different countries around the globe shows that those with low or inadequate health-related knowledge and skills include all ages, social, and economic backgrounds. The consequences of this inadequacy simultaneously affect individuals, healthcare systems, and society in many ways, such as healthcare quality and cost. Research on health literacy can provide insight on how to improve the communication of health issues, raise awareness, and promote the lifelong learning of patients and healthcare professionals. Optimizing Health Literacy for Improved Clinical Practices examines the latest advances in providing and helping patients and medical professionals to understand basic health information and the services that are most appropriate. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as patient engagement, mobile health, and health communication, this book is geared towards medical professionals, hospital adminstrators, healthcare providers, academicians, and researchers in the field.

Author : World Health Organization. Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse,World Health Organization. Mental Health Evidence and Research Team
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Medical personnel
ISBN : 9789241562966

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Mental Health Atlas 2005 by World Health Organization. Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse,World Health Organization. Mental Health Evidence and Research Team Pdf

This atlas is aimed at collecting, compiling and desseminating information on mental health resources in the world. It presents updated and expanded information from 192 countries with analyses of global and regional trends as well as individual country profiles. Newly included in this volume is a section on epidemiology within the profiles of all low and middle income countries. It shows that mental health resources within most countries remain inadequate despite modest improvments since 2001. Availability of mental health resources across countries and between regions remains substantially uneven, with many countries having few resources. The atlas reinforces the urgent need to enhance mental health resources within countries.

Author : Jamil, Sadia,Çoban, Bar??,Ataman, Bora,Appiah-Adjei, Gifty
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781799866886

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Handbook of Research on Discrimination, Gender Disparity, and Safety Risks in Journalism by Jamil, Sadia,Çoban, Bar??,Ataman, Bora,Appiah-Adjei, Gifty Pdf

Today, a variety of gender-based threats and discrimination continue to characterize journalism. Both male and female journalists are prone to online and offline threats, casual stereotypes in their routine work, and discrimination (especially in terms of job opportunities, promotion, and pay-scale). Working in a safe and non-discriminatory environment is the right of all journalists, regardless of their gender. The Handbook of Research on Discrimination, Gender Disparity, and Safety Risks in Journalism is a critical reference book that highlights equal rights in journalism to ensure the safety of women and men. The book investigates the level and nature of threats, both online and offline, faced by journalists as well as gender discrimination in journalism. Best practices and examples that can promote a safe working environment and gender equality in journalism are also presented. Highlighting important themes such as online harassment, sexism, and gender-based violence, this book is ideal for journalists, reporters, media organizations, professionals, researchers, academicians, and students working or studying in the fields of journalism, media and communications, human rights, and women’s studies.

Author : Michael T. Compton,Ruth S. Shim
Publisher : American Psychiatric Pub
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781585625178

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The Social Determinants of Mental Health by Michael T. Compton,Ruth S. Shim Pdf

The Social Determinants of Mental Health aims to fill the gap that exists in the psychiatric, scholarly, and policy-related literature on the social determinants of mental health: those factors stemming from where we learn, play, live, work, and age that impact our overall mental health and well-being. The editors and an impressive roster of chapter authors from diverse scholarly backgrounds provide detailed information on topics such as discrimination and social exclusion; adverse early life experiences; poor education; unemployment, underemployment, and job insecurity; income inequality, poverty, and neighborhood deprivation; food insecurity; poor housing quality and housing instability; adverse features of the built environment; and poor access to mental health care. This thought-provoking book offers many beneficial features for clinicians and public health professionals: Clinical vignettes are included, designed to make the content accessible to readers who are primarily clinicians and also to demonstrate the practical, individual-level applicability of the subject matter for those who typically work at the public health, population, and/or policy level. Policy implications are discussed throughout, designed to make the content accessible to readers who work primarily at the public health or population level and also to demonstrate the policy relevance of the subject matter for those who typically work at the clinical level. All chapters include five to six key points that focus on the most important content, helping to both prepare the reader with a brief overview of the chapter's main points and reinforce the "take-away" messages afterward. In addition to the main body of the book, which focuses on selected individual social determinants of mental health, the volume includes an in-depth overview that summarizes the editors' and their colleagues' conceptualization, as well as a final chapter coauthored by Dr. David Satcher, 16th Surgeon General of the United States, that serves as a "Call to Action," offering specific actions that can be taken by both clinicians and policymakers to address the social determinants of mental health. The editors have succeeded in the difficult task of balancing the individual/clinical/patient perspective and the population/public health/community point of view, while underscoring the need for both groups to work in a unified way to address the inequities in twenty-first century America. The Social Determinants of Mental Health gives readers the tools to understand and act to improve mental health and reduce risk for mental illnesses for individuals and communities. Students preparing for the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) will also benefit from this book, as the MCAT in 2015 will test applicants' knowledge of social determinants of health. The social determinants of mental health are not distinct from the social determinants of physical health, although they deserve special emphasis given the prevalence and burden of poor mental health.

Author : Claudia Lang,William Sax
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789048550135

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The Movement for Global Mental Health by Claudia Lang,William Sax Pdf

In this volume, prominent anthropologists, public health physicians, and psychiatrists respond sympathetically but critically to the Movement for Global Mental Health (MGMH), which seeks to export psychiatry throughout the world. They question some of its fundamental assumptions: the idea that "mental disorders" can clearly be identified; that they are primarily of biological origin; that the world is currently facing an "epidemic" of them; that the most appropriate treatments for them normally involve psycho-pharmaceutical drugs; and that local or indigenous therapies are of little interest or importance for treating them. Instead, the contributors argue that labeling mental suffering as "illness" or "disorder" is often highly problematic; that the countries of South and Southeast Asia have abundant, though non- psychiatric, resources for dealing with it; that its causes are often social and biographical; and that many non-pharmacological therapies are effective for dealing with it. In short, they advocate a thoroughgoing mental health pluralism.

Author : S. M. Yasir Arafat
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789819991532

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Access to Mental Health Care in South Asia by S. M. Yasir Arafat Pdf

Author : Dinesh Bhugra,Susham Gupta
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-02
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781139494007

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Migration and Mental Health by Dinesh Bhugra,Susham Gupta Pdf

Human migration is a global phenomenon and is on the increase. It occurs as a result of 'push' factors (asylum, natural disaster), or as a result of 'pull' factors (seeking economic or educational improvement). Whatever the cause of the relocation, the outcome requires individuals to adjust to their new surroundings and cope with the stresses involved, and as a result, there is considerable potential for disruption to mental health. This volume explores all aspects of migration, on all scales, and its effect on mental health. It covers migration in the widest sense and does not limit itself to refugee studies. It covers issues specific to the elderly and the young, as well as providing practical tips for clinicians on how to improve their own cultural competence in the work setting. The book will be of interest to all mental health professionals and those involved in establishing health and social policy.

Author : Joseph O. Prewitt Diaz
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000799965

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Mental Health and Psychosocial Support during the COVID-19 Response by Joseph O. Prewitt Diaz Pdf

This new volume presents a holistic scenario of the challenges of providing mental health and psychosocial support to areas around the world with the most vulnerable populations during the tragic COVID-19 pandemic. The book synthesizes over 350 interviews with mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) professionals on the ground in countries around the world, discussing the lack of services and providing strategies for implementing mental health and psychosocial support in such situations going forward. The book is a first look at MHPSS during the COVID-19 pandemic with the hope that it will inspire and generate action for future worldwide mental health and psychosocial support responses. This essential book is a call to action for cultural, linguistic, and contextual actions that addresses inclusiveness of the most vulnerable and unheard communities and that re-establishes resilience through mental health and psychosocial community-led programs. The volume is an analysis by a seasoned humanitarian worker with over 30 years of direct experience with the most vulnerable communities, with contributions from several colleagues. They help frame COVID-19 as a systemic loss of protective factors, where communities collapsed psychologically, socially, and economically.

Author : Andrew Scull
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 1161 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-20
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781483346335

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Cultural Sociology of Mental Illness by Andrew Scull Pdf

Cultural Sociology of Mental Illness: An A to Z Guide looks at recent reports that suggest an astonishing rise in mental illness and considers such questions as: Are there truly more mentally ill people now or are there just more people being diagnosed and treated? What are the roles of economics and the pharmacological industry in this controversy? At the core of what is going on with mental illness in America and around the world, the editors suggest, is cultural sociology: How differing cultures treat mental illness and, in turn, how mental health patients are affected by the culture. In this illuminating multidisciplinary reference, expert scholars explore the culture of mental illness from the non-clinical perspectives of sociology, history, psychology, epidemiology, economics, public health policy, and finally, the mental health patients themselves. Key themes include Cultural Comparisons of Mental Health Disorders; Cultural Sociology of Mental Illness Around the World; Economics; Epidemiology; Mental Health Practitioners; Non-Drug Treatments; Patient, the Psychiatry, and Psychology; Psychiatry and Space; Psychopharmacology; Public Policy; Social History; and Sociology. Key Features This two-volume A-Z work, available in both print and electronic formats, includes close to 400 articles by renowned experts in their respective fields. An Introduction, a thematic Reader’s Guide, a Glossary, and a Resource Guide to Key Books, Journals, and Associations and their web sites enhance this invaluable reference. A chronology places the cultural sociology of mental illness in historical context. 150 photos bring concepts to life. The range and scope of this Encyclopedia is vivid testimony to the intellectual vitality of the field and will make a useful contribution to the next generation of sociological research on the cultural sociology of mental illness.

Author : Smith, Mark,Jury, Angela F.
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-09
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781522518754

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Workforce Development Theory and Practice in the Mental Health Sector by Smith, Mark,Jury, Angela F. Pdf

Across the globe, evaluating the initiatives and planning strategies of the modern workforce has become increasingly imperative. By developing professional competencies, various sectors can achieve better quality skill development. Workforce Development Theory and Practice in the Mental Health Sector is an essential reference source on the understanding of workforce capacity and capability and examines specific benefits and applications in addiction and mental health services. Featuring extensive coverage on a range of topics including public service provision, staff motivation, and clinical competency, this book is ideally designed for policy makers, academicians, researchers, and students seeking current research on the challenges facing countries in the areas of planning and development in the workforce.

Author : Itzhak Levav
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1250415128

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Mental Health Stigma And Attitudes To Psychiatry Among Bangladeshi Medical Students by Itzhak Levav Pdf

BACKGROUND: The shortage of specialized human resources in mental health in Bangladesh requires active recruitment of psychiatric residents. In addition, the involvement of positively inclined health personnel, for example, medical doctors, emerges as an immediate priority.AIM: To explore stigma among medical students toward persons with mental disorders (PMDs) and their attitudes toward psychiatry.METHOD: We conducted a cross-sectional study at Faridpur Medical College in Bangladesh before (First year) and following psychiatric rotation (Fifth year). Students (N = 200) filled anonymous questionnaires measuring stigma toward PMDs and attitudes to psychiatry.RESULTS: Upper medical school year (p = .028), older age (p = .005), mother's lower academic level (p = .043), upper and lower socioeconomic level affiliation (p = .008) and self-consultation for mental or neurological complaints (p = .032) were associated with increased stigma toward PMDs. More favorable attitudes toward psychiatry were found in upper medical school year (p = .073) and were significantly associated with female gender (p = .018) and middle socioeconomic level affiliation (p = .013).CONCLUSION: The relative improvement in attitudes toward psychiatry in the upper medical school year is overshadowed by the increased stigma toward PMDs. Specific anti-stigma program in the curriculum and strategies to improve the attitudes are required.

Author : Naseem Akhtar Qureshi,Harshavardhan Sampath,Samrat Singh Bhandari
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9782832537350

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Community series in mental health promotion and protection, volume II by Naseem Akhtar Qureshi,Harshavardhan Sampath,Samrat Singh Bhandari Pdf

Author : Michael Ashley Stein,Faraaz Mahomed,Vikram Patel,Charlene Sunkel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108838856

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Mental Health, Legal Capacity, and Human Rights by Michael Ashley Stein,Faraaz Mahomed,Vikram Patel,Charlene Sunkel Pdf

Provides practical solutions for ending coercion in mental health care and realizing the universal right to legal capacity.