Building places and mental health – methodological challenges

[Mental Health Declaration for Europe "facing the challenges, building solution"].

[The Family Health Program and Mental Health: difficulties and challenges for building a network].

This paper is fruit of an investigation called ' The dynamics of mental care: signs, meanings and practices of professionals working in the Family Health Program (FHP) and in the Psychosocial Care Centers (PCCs)' . The main objective of this study was to understand how health professionals working in these two services interpret mental suffering and how they plan and develop their interventions...

Places, people, and their physical and mental functional health.

STUDY OBJECTIVE To investigate the impact of area of residence on functional health as represented by medical outcomes study SF-36 physical and mental component summary scores. DESIGN Multilevel analysis of cross sectional data from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition in Norfolk, UK (EPIC-Norfolk). PARTICIPANTS A community dwelling cohort of 18399 men and women,...

Mapping of reproductive health financing: methodological challenges.

Low level of funding for reproductive health (RH) is a cause for concern, given that RH service utilization in the vast majority of the developing world is well below the desired level. Though there is an urgent need to track the domestic and international financial resource flows for RH, the instruments through which financial resources are tracked in developing countries are limited. In this ...

Health Sector Reform and Social Determinants of Health: building up theoretical and methodological interconnections to approach complex global challenges.

Health Sector Reform and Social Determinants of Health are central issues for the current international policy debate, considering the turbulent scenario and the threat of economic recession in a global scale. Although these themes have been discussed for a long time, three major issues still calls the attention of the scientific community and health policymakers. The first one is the matter of...