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The Culture of Mental Illness and Psychiatric Practice in Africa
- Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- In many African countries, mental health issues, including the burden of serious mental illness and trauma, have not been adequately addressed. These essays shed light on the treatment of common and chronic mental disorders, including mental illness and treatment in the current climate of economic and political instability, access to health care, access to medicines, and the impact of HIV-AIDS and other chronic illness on mental health. While problems are rampant and carry real and devastating consequences, this volume promotes an understanding of the African mental health landscape in service of reform.
- Subjects :
- Methodology
Mental illness
Health care reform
Anthropology
Social control
Social status--Africa
Health care reform--Africa
Manners and customs
Mental illness--Africa
Medical care
Culture
Medical policy
Mental illness--Treatment--Africa
Mental health services--Africa
Ethnology
Health services administration
Social sciences
Health planning
Sociology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISBNs :
- 9780253012869, 9780253012937, and 9780253013040
- Database :
- eBook Index
- Journal :
- The Culture of Mental Illness and Psychiatric Practice in Africa
- Publication Type :
- eBook
- Accession number :
- 984391