Juan P Borda,Ricardo Tamayo,Gareth Owen
Juan P Borda
Several international proclamations in the last decades have advocated for the dignity and autonomy of persons with mental disorders. Few discussions have been generated regarding the implication of this transition in low- and middle-income...
Restrictive environments: the challenge of implementing of Brunei's 2014 Mental Health Order [0.03%]
限制性环境:实施文莱2014年《精神健康令》的挑战
Hilda Ho
Hilda Ho
In 2014, Brunei implemented the Mental Health Order, which replaced the 1929 Lunacy Act. This new legislation was designed to improve the treatment of mental disorders and to protect the rights and welfare of people with mental disorders. T...
Mental health: taking its place as an essential element of sustainable global development [0.03%]
心理健康:作为不可或缺的全球可持续发展要素被重视起来
Pamela Scorza,Ohemaa Poku,Kathleen M Pike
Pamela Scorza
As of 2015, with the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the United Nations has a new roadmap for development that will guide global and national agendas for the next 15 years. Mental health was explicitly included in the ...
Mohamed El Mahi
Mohamed El Mahi
Alcohol and cannabis were the two main substances of misuse among certain groups in Sudan, especially young adults. Over the past decade, there has been a surge in the use of other substances, including prescribed drugs, among young people ...
Eleni Palazidou,Anna Polyniki
Eleni Palazidou
The current Law for Psychiatric Care in the Republic of Cyprus was enacted in 1997 with amendments made in 2003 and 2007. The mental health law makes provision for the development and function of Psychiatric Centres for the care of the ment...
Jessica Carlisle
Jessica Carlisle
During the past 30 years the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has developed an extensive hospital-based mental health system culminating in the passing of a mental health law in 2014. This legislation embodies many of the international standards pro...
Asad Tamizuddin Nizami,Tariq Mahmood Hassan,Sadia Yasir et al.
Asad Tamizuddin Nizami et al.
Terrorism is often construed as a well-thought-out, extreme form of violence to perceived injustices. The after effects of terrorism are usually reported without understanding the underlying psychological and social determinants of the terr...
Karen A Francis,Andrew Molodynski,Giselle Emmanuel
Karen A Francis
St Lucia is a small island in the eastern Caribbean with a population of approximately 200 000 people. Although St Lucia is formally ranked as a high middle-income country, there are pockets of deprivation and relatively low living standard...
Nothing about us without us: the importance of local collaboration and engagement in the global study of autism [0.03%]
没有我们的参与不能论及我们:开展全球自闭症研究中的地方合作与互动的重要性
Rosa A Hoekstra,Fikirte Girma,Bethlehem Tekola et al.
Rosa A Hoekstra et al.
Our current understanding of autism and other developmental disorders is primarily based on research conducted in high-income countries, predominantly in North America and Europe. Even within high-income countries, White participants are ov...