Digital Innovations for Global Mental Health: Opportunities for Data Science, Task Sharing, and Early Intervention

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;...

Mental health treatment in Kenya: task-sharing challenges and opportunities among informal health providers

BACKGROUND The study was conducted to explore challenges faced by trained informal health providers referring individuals with suspected mental disorders for treatment, and potential opportunities to counter these challenges. METHODS The study used a qualitative focus group approach. It involved community health workers, traditional and faith healers from Makueni County in Kenya. Ten Focus Gr...

Sharing Israeli Innovations for Global Sustainable Development

Global Mental Health: sharing and synthesizing knowledge for sustainable development

Global mental health (GMH) is a growing domain with an increasing capacity to positively impact the world community's efforts for sustainable development and wellbeing. Sharing and synthesizing GMH and multi-sectoral knowledge, the focus of this paper, is an important way to support these global efforts. This paper consolidates some of the most recent and relevant 'context resources' [global mu...

global results on some nonlinear partial differential equations for direct and inverse problems

در این رساله به بررسی رفتار جواب های رده ای از معادلات دیفرانسیل با مشتقات جزیی در دامنه های کراندار می پردازیم . این معادلات به فرم نیم-خطی و غیر خطی برای مسایل مستقیم و معکوس مورد مطالعه قرار می گیرند . به ویژه، تاثیر شرایط مختلف فیزیکی را در مساله، نظیر وجود موانع و منابع، پراکندگی و چسبندگی در معادلات موج و گرما بررسی می کنیم و به دنبال شرایطی می گردیم که متضمن وجود سراسری یا عدم وجود سراسر...