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Globalising Mental Health or Pathologising the Global South? Mapping the Ethics, Theory and Practice of Global Mental Health

Year: 2014

Type: article

Abstract: Embodied in the very concept of Global Mental Health (an area that is emerging as both a field of study and a global movement), mental health is conceptualised as being 'global'; mental disorders are constructed as having 'a physical basis in the brain….theycan affect everyone, everywhere' and are understood to be 'truly universal' (WHO, 2001a:x, 22).The construction of 'mental disorder' as universal is used to draw attention to inequalities in access to mental health care and treatment globally -the 'treatment gap' -and to push to scale up mental health services in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) based on those in high-income countries (HICs).This push arises from two separate, yet interrelated, arenas; the World Health Organization (WHO), and the Movement for Global Mental Health (MGMH) (www.globalmentalhealth.org).

Source: White Rose Research Online (University of Leeds, The University of Sheffield, University of York)

Authors: China Mills, Suman Fernando

Language: English

Topic: Mental Health Treatment and Access

Subfield: Social Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Good health and well-being, Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2617136336

FWCI: 7.42

Cites: 32

Cited by: 112

Related to: 10