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Innovations in Global Mental Health

  • Serves as a trustworthy reference for emerging challenges in global mental health

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Table of contents (85 entries)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xlvi
  2. Part I

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-2
  3. Part II

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 47-47
    2. Role of the United Nations in Global Mental Health

      • Takashi Izutsu, Atsuro Tsutsumi
      Pages 49-62
    3. Evidence for Action: Stimulating Research to Address the Global Mental Health Treatment Gap

      • Beverly Pringle, Makeda Williams, Pamela Y. Collins
      Pages 63-88
    4. Capacity Building for a Mental Health System of Care in Liberia

      • Janice L. Cooper, Wilfred Gwaikolo, Dyonah Thomas
      Pages 103-122
    5. Providing Mental Health Care in Primary Care Centers in LMICs

      • Mercedes Aguerrebere, Fátima G. Rodríguez-Cuevas, Hugo Flores, Jafet Arrieta, Giuseppe Raviola
      Pages 123-144
  4. Part III

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 145-145
    2. Lessons from Research Innovations in Depression and HIV in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

      • Rebecca Jopling, Joyce P. Yang, Susan Meffert, Monika Müller, Primrose C. Nyamayaro, Melanie Abas
      Pages 169-190
    3. Rethinking Radicalization Leading to Violence as a Global Health Issue

      • Diana Miconi, Rochelle L. Frounfelker, Yann Zoldan, Cécile Rousseau
      Pages 203-220
  5. Part IV

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 221-221
    2. Challenges in Health Workforce Planning: Caring for a Healthy Health Workforce

      • Eszter Kovacs, Mariann Tandari-Kovacs, Anna Kozak
      Pages 245-272
    3. Mental Health Reform in Peru: Innovations, Challenges, and Sustainability

      • Jose A. Arriola-Vigo, Francisco Diez-Canseco
      Pages 291-316

About this book

Over the course of the last decade, political and mental entities at large have embraced global mental health: the idea that psychiatric health is vital to improved quality of life.  Physicians globally have implemented guidelines recommended by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) in 2007, thereby breaking down barriers to care and improving quality of life in areas where these practices have been implemented.  Programs for training and education have expanded as a result.  Clinicians benefit more from both local resources in some regions as well as in international collaboration and technological advancements. 

Even amidst all of these positive outcomes, clinicians still face some stumbling blocks.  With worldwide statistics estimating that 450 million people struggle with mental, neuropsychiatric, and neurological disorders—25 percent of the world’s non-communicable disease burden—rising to these challenges prove to be no small feat, even in wealthy Western nations.  

Various articles and books have been published on global mental health, but few of them thoroughly cover the clinical, research, innovative, and social implications as they pertain to psychiatry; often, only one of these aspects is covered.  A comprehensive text that can keep pace with the rapidly evolving literature grows more and more valuable each day as clinicians struggle to piece together the changes around the world that leave open the possibility for improved outcomes in care.

This book seeks to boldly rectify this situation by identifying innovative models of service delivery, training, education, research funding, and payment systems that have proven to be exemplary in implementation and scalability or have potential for scalability.  Chapters describe specific barriers and challenges, illuminating effective strategies for improved outcomes.

This text is the first peer-reviewed resource to gather prestigious physicians in global mental health from around the world and disseminate their expertise in the medical community at large in a format that is updateable, making it a truly cutting-edge resource in a world constantly changed by medical, scientific, and technological advances.

Innovations in Global Mental Health is the ultimate resource for psychiatrists, psychologists, primary care physicians, hospitalists, policy makers, and all medical professionals at the forefront of global mental health and its implications for the future.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Center for Health, Culture, and Society, Nashville, USA

    Samuel O. Okpaku

About the editor

Dr. Sam O. Okpaku M.D., Ph.D. is an expert in Global Mental Health who has lived in countries across the world, including Nigeria, the UK, Israel, and the US.  He has studied internal medicine, psychiatry, social welfare at various prestigious institutions globally.  In the US, he has held high-profile positions at various reputable institutions, including Yale, the University of Pennsylvania, and most recently Vanderbilt University.  His far-reaching medical interests include neurosurgery, psychiatry, nursing, neurology, immunology and internal medicine.  His non-medical interests include philosophy, music, and social justice.

In addition to his academic and global work, Dr. Okpaku has built a successful private practice in Nashville.  He takes pride in organizing his wealth of knowledge, experience, and international contacts into high-quality articles and professional books meant to advance the medical community around the world. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Innovations in Global Mental Health

  • Editors: Samuel O. Okpaku

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57296-9

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Reference Module Medicine

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-57295-2Published: 03 November 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-57296-9Published: 02 November 2021

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XLVI, 1612

  • Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 131 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Psychiatry, Clinical Psychology, Public Health, Internal Medicine

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