Global mental health : principles and practice / edited by Vikram Patel, MRCPsych, PhD, FMedSci, Centre for Global Mental Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Sangeth, Goa, India, and Centre for Mental Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India ; Harry Minas MBBS, BMedSc, DPM, FRANCP, Centre for International Mental Health, School of Population and Global Health, the University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia ; Alex Cohen, PhD, Centre for Global Mental Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom ; Martin J. Prince, MD, FRCPsych, Centre for Global Mental Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.

xii, 497 p. : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A brief history of global mental health / Alex Cohen, Vikram Patel, and Harry Minas -- Disorders, diagnosis and classification / Oye Gureje and Dan J. Stein -- Culture and global mental health / Laurence J. Kirmayer and Leslie Swartz -- Cross-cultural research methods and practice / Martin J. Prince -- The epidemiology and impact of mental disorders / Ronald C. Kessler, Jordi Alonso, Somnath Chatterji and Yanling He -- Mental health and the global health and development agendas / Martin J. Prince, Atif Rahman, Rosie Mayston and Benedict Weobong -- Social determinants of mental health / Crick Lund, Stephen Stansfield, and Mary De Silva -- Human security, complexity and mental health system development / Harry Minas -- Global mental health resources / Pallab K Maulik, Amy Daniels, Ryan McBain, Jodi Morris -- Strategies for strengthening human resource for mental health / Ritsuko Kakuma, Harry Minas, Mario R. Dal Poz -- Mental health promotion and the prevention of mental disorders / Inge Petersen, Margaret Barry, Crick Lund and Arvin Bhana -- Interventions for mental disorders / Charlotte Hanlon, Abebaw Fekadu and Vikram Patel -- Mental health policy development and implementation / Crick Lund, Jose Miguel Caldas de Almeida, Harvey Whiteford and John Mahoney -- Scaling up services for mental health / Julian Eaton, Mary DeSilva, Graciela Rojas and Vikram Patel -- Child and adolescent mental health / Christian Kieling, Ana Soledade Graeff-Martins, Hesham Hamoda, Luis Augusto Rohde -- Womens mental health / Jane Fisher, Helen Herrman, Meena Cabral de Mello and Prabha Chandra -- Mental health and psychosocial support in humanitarian settings / Wietse A. Tol, Pierre Bastin, Mark J.D. Jordans, Harry Minas, Renato Souza. Inka Weissbecker and Mark Van Ommeren -- Stigma, discrimination and promoting human rights / Nisha Mehta and Graham Thornicroft -- Research priorities, capacity and networks in global mental health / Pamela Y. Collins, Mark Tomlinson, Ritsuko Kakuma, Jude Awuba and Harry Minas -- Generating political commitment for mental health system development / Jose Miguel Caldas de Almeida, Harry Minas and Claudina Cayetano.

Wellcome Trust grant output. Grantholder: Vikram Patel. Grant type: Senior Research Fellowship. Grant number: 091834.