Global Mental Health
Code
21201
Academic unit
NOVA Medical School | Faculdade de Ciências Médicas
Credits
4
Teacher in charge
Professor Doutor Benedetto Saraceno
Teaching language
English
Objectives
1. To acquire the basic information about the main international initiatives on global mental health
2. To understand the role of different stakeholders in the global mental health debate
3. To understand the mental health challenges in Low and Middle Income countries.
Prerequisites
Subject matter
a) Review of the main international Reports, Declarations, Seminal documents and Initiatives
b) Study of the formal and informal processes of reaching consensus among Governments
c) Study of specificities and commonalities of Mental Health Reforms at global level
d) Review of examples of Mental Health Reforms
e) Analysis of the implications for access and task-shifting in low resources settings.
Bibliography
1. Desjarlais R, Eisenberg L, Good B, Kleinman A (1995): World Mental Health: Problems and Priorities in Low-Income Countries. Oxford University Press, New York-Oxford.
2. WHO (2001) The World Health Report: Mental Health: New Understanding, New HopeWHO, Geneva.
3. Horton, R (editor) (2007 Sept and 2011 Oct) Global Mental Health Series The Lancet, 1-98 and 1-75.
4. WHO (2010) Strategies to reduce the harmful use of alcohol. Draft Global Strategy. WHO, Geneva.
5. Saraceno B, Dua T: Global Mental Health: the role of psychiatry. European Archives of Psychiatry Clinical .Neuroscience. 2009; 259 (Suppl 2): S109-S117.
6. Patel V, Prince M (2010): Global Mental Health: A New Global Health Field Comes of Age. JAMA. 303(19):1976-1977.
7. Bass JK, Bornemann TH, Burkey M, Chehil S, Chen L, Copeland J, Eaton WW,Ganju V,Hayward E, Hock R, Kidwai R, Kolappa K, Lee PT, Minas H, Or F, Raviola GJ, Saraceno B, Patel V: (2012) A United Nations General Assembly Special Session for Mental, Neurological, and Substance Use Disorders: The Time Has Come. PLoS Med 9(1):e1001159. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001159
8. Petersen I, Lund Crick, Bhana A, Flisher A: A task shifting approach to primary mental health care for adults in South Africa: human resource requirements and costs for rural settings. Health Policy and Planning February 2011
9. Caldas de Almeida JM, Cohen A. Innovative Mental Health Programmes in Latin America and the Caribbean. Edited by Washington, DC, Pan American Health Organization, 2008
10. Caldas de Almeida JM, Horvitz-Lennon M. An Overview of Mental Health Care Reforms in Latin America and the Caribbean. Psychiatric Services, Vol 61, 2010.
Teaching method
Lectures with Questions and Answers and Working groups.
Evaluation method
Two Assignments based on questions related to recommended readings.