Special issue: e-health innovations for global mental health

Special issue: e-health innovations for global mental health

A staggering amount of 25% of people worldwide are estimated to be affected by mental in their lives (WHO, 2011). Although effective interventions to reducemental health symptoms exist, many sufferers do not receive mental health care. In particular, as much as 76–85% of people in need of treatment in lowand middle-income countries (LMICs) do not receive any treatment at all (Patel et al. 2011;...

Special Issue "Technology for Mental Health"

Help4Mood is a system that supports the treatment of people with depression in the community. It collects rich cognitive, psychomotor, and motor data through a Personal Monitoring System and a Virtual Agent, which is then analysed by a Decision Support System; analysis results are fed back to patients and their treating clinicians. In this paper, we describe how the complex data is managed and ...

Transforming lives, enhancing communities--innovations in global mental health.

Race, Ethnicity and Mental Health: Introduction to the Special Issue*

233 Race and ethnicity have been and continue to be associated with residence in safe and supportive neighborhoods, employment in good paying and fulfilling jobs, attendance at schools with exceptional learning environments, and quality health care (National Research Council 2001). Explanations for the persistent effects of race and ethnicity in our daily lives have taken different forms and of...

Introduction to Special Issue on Globalisation, Culture and Mental Health