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1 History of global mental health / Samuel O. Okpaku and Sanchita Biswas -- 2 Burden of illness / Jordi Alonso, Somnath Chatterji, Yanling He, and Ronald C. Kessler -- 3 Trends, gaps, and disparities in mental health / Robert Kohn -- 4 Global health and mental health as diplomacy / Samuel O. Okpaku -- 5 Global mental health and the United Nations / Takashi Izutsu and Atsuro Tsutsumi -- 6 The voice of the user/survivor / Moosa Salie -- 7 Internalized stigma / Edwin Cameron -- 8 Definition and process of stigma / Heather Stuart -- 9 Stigmatization and exclusion / Ramachandran Padmavati

41 Medical education and global mental health / Clare Pain and Atalay Alem -- 42 Research priorities for mental health in low- and middle-income countries / Samuel O. Okpaku and Grace A. Herbert -- 43 Research infrastructure / Athula Sumathipala -- 44 Monitoring the progress of countries / Jorge Rodríguez and Víctor Aparicio.

36 The role of non-governmental organizations / Robert van Voren and Rob Keukens -- 37 Mental health, mass communication, and media / Marten W. de Vries -- 38 Suicide and depression / Diego De Leo and Lay San Too -- 39 Violence as a public health problem / Claire van der Westhuizen, Katherine Sorsdahl, Gail Wyatt, and Dan J. Stein -- 40 The war on drugs in the USA, Mexico, and Central America: Plan Colombia and the Mérida Initiative / Samuel O. Okpaku and Jayanthi Karunaratne

31 Child mental health services in Liberia: human resources implications / Janice L. Cooper and Rodney D. Presley -- 32 Mental health and illness outcomes in civilian populations exposed to armed conflict and war / Duncan Pedersen and Hanna Kienzler -- 33 Implications of disasters for global mental health / Sabrina Hermosilla and Sandro Galea -- 34 International response to natural and manmade disasters / Inka Weissbecker and Lynne Jones -- 35 Global health governance, international law, and mental health / Lance Gable

25 Adolescent alcohol and substance abuse / Julia W. Felton, Zachary W. Adams, Laura MacPherson, and Carla Kmett Danielson -- 26 Women's mental health / Samuel O. Okpaku, Thara Rangaswamy, and Hema Tharoor -- 27 Violence against women / Erminia Colucci and Reima Pryor -- 28 Women and global mental health: vulnerability and empowerment / Janis H. Jenkins and Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good -- 29 Trafficking in persons / Atsuro Tsutsumi and Takashi Izutsu -- 30 Capacity building / Rachel Jenkins, Florence Baingana, David McDaid, and Rifat Atun

20 Screening for developmental disabilities in epidemiologic studies in low- and middle-income countries / Maureen S. Durkin and Matthew J. Maenner -- 21 Screening for developmental disabilities in epidemiologic studies in low- and middle-income countries / Maureen S. Durkin and Matthew J. Maenner -- 22 Child abuse as a global mental health problem / Felipe Picon, Andrea Fiorillo, and Dinesh Bhugra -- 23 Child soldiers / Ruwan M. Jayatunge and Daya Somasundaram -- 24 Mental health and intellectual disability: implications for global mental health / Marco Bertelli and M. Thomas Kishore

15 Collaboration between traditional and Western practitioners / Victoria N. Mutiso, Patrick Gatonga, David M. Ndetei, Teddy Gafna, Anne W. Mbwayo, and Lincoln I. Khasakhala -- 16 Setting up integrated mental health systems / Manuela Silva and José Miguel Caldas de Almeida -- 17 ntegrated mental health systems: the Cuban experience / Ester Shapiro and Isabel Louro Bernal -- 18 Poverty and perinatal morbidity as risk factors for mental illness / Feijun Luo, Xiangming Fang, Lijing Ouyang, and Deborah M. Stone -- 19 Maternal mental health care: refining the components in a South African setting / Sally Field, Emily Baron, Ingrid Meintjes, Thandi van Heyningen, and Simone Honikman

10 Grassroots movements in mental health / Chris Underhill, Sarah Kippen Wood, Jordan Pfau, and Shoba Raja -- 11 The rise of consumerism and local advocacy / Dinesh Bhugra, Norman Sartorius, and Diana Rose -- 12 Programs to reduce stigma in epilepsy and HIV/AIDS / Rita Thom -- 13 The challenges of human resources in low- and middle-income countries / David M. Ndetei and Patrick Gatonga -- 14 Integration of mental health services into primary care settings / Shoba Raja, Sarah Kippen Wood, and Jordan Pfau

Mental illness accounts directly for 14% of the global burden of disease and significantly more indirectly, and recent reports recognise the need to expand and improve mental health delivery on a global basis, especially in low and middle income countries. This text defines an approach to mental healthcare focused on the provision of evidence-based, cost-effective treatments, founded on the principles of sharing the best information about common problems and achieving international equity in coverage, options and outcomes. The coverage spans a diverse range of topics and defines five priority areas for the field. These embrace the domains of global advocacy, systems of development, research progress, capacity building, and monitoring. The book concludes by defining the steps to achieving equality of care globally. This is essential reading for policy makers, administrators, economists and mental health care professionals, and those from the allied professions of sociology, anthropology, international politics and foreign policy.