Category: Mental Health
Articles relating to mental health issues.
Happy New 2010 - the latest newsletter is available for download here!
We hope to see you at an Alma Mata event this year!
The UCL Health and Society Summer School 13 - 17 July 09 focusing on the social determinants of health and global health is now accepting registrations. Speakers included Professor Sir Michael Marmot and Professor Richard Wilkinson (author of the recently published The Spirit Level - Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better).
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
Paul Hunt, The Human Rights Centre, University of Essex , United Kingdom
Bhim Pariyar, who grew up on the streets of the capital, Kathmandu, huddled in a corner with other boys like him, all trying to warm themselves around the fire they had made by burning plastic, paper and tyres.
"It's time for fun now," Pariyar told his friends as he took out the packet of dendrite.
"You know, this helps us to get rid of our hunger," explained his friend, 14-year-old Rajen Subba, who fled his home in Jhapa district in southeast Nepal due to grinding poverty and started to work as a rag picker.
Pratap Sharan, Itzhak Levav, Sylvie Olifson, Andrés de Francisco and Shekhar Saxena (eds.)
Geneva, World Health Organization and Global Forum for Health Research, 2007
The Lancet has recently published a series of papers on global mental health. In the series the Lancet expresses a call to action for governments, donors, multilateral agencies and other mental health stakeholders to scale up the coverage of mental health services, especially in low and middle income countries.
A comprehensive archive of public seminars is available online on the website of the International Institute for Society and Health of University College, London. The seminars cover a broad range of topics which Alma Mata members will find interesting and useful.
Topics have included:
Risk, Resilience and Social Integration
Conflict Medicine: A Neglected Challenge
Social Inequalities in Health - New Evidence and Policy Implications
Beyond scarcity: Power, poverty and the global water crisis
UNDP November 2006 - web site: http://hdr.undp.org/hdr2006/
“….Throughout history water has confronted humanity with some of its greatest challenges. Water is a source of life and a natural resource that sustains our environments and supports livelihoods – but it is also a source of risk and vulnerability. In the early 21st Century, prospects for human development are threatened by a deepening global water crisis. Debunking the myth that the crisis is the result of scarcity, this report argues poverty, power and inequality are at the heart of the problem.
Education and Training: Grants and Funding Directory of Grants and Fellowships in the Global Health Sciences
Website: http://www.fic.nih.gov/funding/directory_fellowships.htm
A comprehensive compilation of international funding opportunities in biomedical and behavioral research published by the Fogarty International Center,
part of the National Institutes of Health. NIH Publication 06-3027, February 2006
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