- Community Health and Development
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Health, psychology, and well-being
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Family Caregiving in Mental Illness
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Mental Health and Patient Involvement
Emmanuel Hospital Association
2024
University of Edinburgh
2023-2024
Global mental health [GMH] scholarship and practice has typically focused on the unmet needs barriers to in communities, developing biomedical psychosocial interventions for integration into formal care platforms response. In this article, we analyse four diverse settings disrupt emphasises system weaknesses, treatment gaps which can perpetuate harmful hierarchies colonial medical assumptions, or a ‘deficit model’. We draw experiential knowledge of community practitioners researchers working...
Abstract Background The COVID-19 crisis in India negatively impacted mental health due to both the disease and harsh lockdown, yet there are almost no qualitative studies describing impacts or strategies of resilience used, particular, reports from most vulnerable groups. This study aimed examine acute as well coping employed by disadvantaged community members North India. Methods We used an intersectional lens for this set rural Tehri Garwhal urban Dehradun districts Uttarakhand, In-depth...
Knowledge co-production can improve the quality and accessibility of health, also benefit service users, allowing them to be recognised as skilled capable. Yet despite these clear benefits, there are inherent challenges in power relations co-production, particularly when experts by experience (EBE) structurally disadvantaged communication skills or literacy. The processes how knowledge is co-produced negotiated seldom described. This paper aims describe building on experiences EBE (people...
Background: In India and global mental health, a key component of the care gap for people with health problems is poor system engagement contexts priorities community members. This study aimed to explore nature systems by conducting participatory assessment assets needs in Uttarkashi, remote district North India. Methods: The data collection analysis process were emergent, iterative, dialogic participatory. Transcripts 28 in-depth interviews (IDIs) informants such as traditional healers,...
Population Medicine considers the following types of articles:• Research Papers -reports data from original research or secondary dataset analyses.• Review -comprehensive, authoritative, reviews within journal's scope.These include both systematic and narrative reviews.• Short Reports -brief reports research.• Policy Case Studies articles on policy development at a regional national level.• Study Protocols -articles describing protocol study.• Methodology -papers that present different...
Context: In rural India, mental healthcare remains limited due to scant state services and incongruency between provider- patient-framing distress. Help-seeking by people with health problems is related how meanings of distress are understood differently individuals, based on their interaction various actors in the community available cultural explanation within local ecologies. Methodology: This study examines mutually constituted relationship help-seeking among residing Upper Yamuna...