Mental Health Policy Adoption as a Seminal Event: A Response to Recent Commentaries

mental health policy adoption as a seminal event: a response to recent commentaries

Mental health policy adoption as a seminal event: A response to recent commentaries.

The leadership for mental health is not commensurate with the burden of mental, neurological, and substance (MNS) use disorders nationally or internationally. This is a sentiment I share with Prof. Jenkins (1) and Ms. Lee (2). With that said, I would like to make two clarifications about my study and two concomitant acknowledgements about its limitations (3). First, I conceptualized national me...

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Global Health as a Field of Power Relations: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Actors working in global health often portray it as an enterprise grounded in principled concerns, advanced by individuals and organizations who draw on scientific evidence to pursue health equity. This portrait is incomplete. It is also a field of power relations—a social arena in which actors claim and draw on expertise and moral authority to gain influence and pursue career, organizational a...

Politics Matters: A Response to Recent Commentaries