Mental Retardation as a Public Health Problem

Mental Health as a Public Social Problem

We define the concept of mental health on the basis of the realization that mental health is not just a health phenomenon anymore, but also a social and psychological one. By defining mental health separately from mental illnesses, it is placed into the concept of public health, which exceeds the medical definition of the determination of a “mental illness”. The anthropology of health defines t...

Perinatal Mental Health: A Public Health Concern

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Mental retardation as a label: a problem in justice.

A Case for Open Network Health Systems: Systems as Networks in Public Mental Health

Increases in incidents involving so-called confused persons have brought attention to the potential costs of recent changes to public mental health (PMH) services in the Netherlands. Decentralized under the (Community) Participation Act (2014), local governments must find resources to compensate for reduced central funding to such services or “innovate.” But innovation, even when pressure for c...

Eliminating onchocerciasis as a public health problem.

Onchocerciasis as a disease of public health significance, which affects people of 35 countries in Africa, America and the Arabian Peninsula (Figures 1 and 2) did not receive much attention until after World War II. By then the blindness produced by onchocerciasis had been fairly well described in studies from west and central Africa, and the transmission of Onchocerca volvulus by Simulium flie...