‘Grand Challenges to Global Mental Health’: Critical perspectives on the US-NIMH initiative

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Abstract: In 2011 the US National Institute of Mental Health launched the Grand Challenges to Global Mental Health on the lines of earlier initiatives on ‘Global Health’ and on ‘Global Chronic Non-Common-communicable diseases’. The Initiative that drew support from a number of organizations assembled a large global expert panel that followed a three-step process of arriving at a list of the most critical challenges in mental health in the next decade. When the results of this Initiative were published in Nature a number of practitioners, academics and patient advocate groups questioned the narrow framework that grounded the initiative resulting in a distorted picture of the most relevant mental health challenges. This short letter raises some of these concerns for further elaboration and public debate.

Keywords: Global Mental Health; practitioners; academics; researchers; advocates; programme implementers; researchers; behavioural science and neurodevelopment; epidemiologists; environmental influences; community care; mental; neurological and substance-use (MNS) disorders (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-10
Note: Current Affairs
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