Mental Health Agenda

Settling Ulysses: An Adapted Research Agenda for Refugee Mental Health

Refugees and asylum seekers arriving in Europe during the 2015/2016 wave of migration have been exposed to war conditions in their country of origin, survived a dangerous journey, and often struggled with negative reception in transit and host countries. The mental health consequence of such forced migration experiences is named the Ulysses syndrome. Policies regarding the right to residency ca...

A renewed agenda for global mental health.

4 years ago, The Lancet published a Series of articles highlighting the global health crisis due to an astonishingly large treatment gap: up to nine of ten people with a mental health problem do not receive even basic care in some countries. The Series showed that this gap was not due to insuffi cient evidence about the eff ect of mental health problems or their eff ective treatment, but to a r...

Setting the WHO agenda for mental health

– Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) provide a useful tool for measuring the burden of mental disorders and the outcome of interventions. According to this measurement, mental disorders are expected to represent 15% of the global burden of disease by 2020. – Other tools are needed to measure other key factors such as the impact of social and economic conditions on mental health, the biologi...

Mental health and the global agenda.

From the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School (A.E.B., A.K.), and the Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital (A.E.B.) — both in Boston; and the Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (A.K.). Address reprint requests to Dr. Kleinman at the Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, William James Hall, 33 Kirkland St...

Positive mental health: a research agenda.