Diversity in Global Mental Health Gender, Lifespan, Access to Care, Treatment and Social Strata /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bährer-Kohler, Sabine (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Bolea-Alamanac, Blanca (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Psychology,
• Subjects: Medicine.; Medicine/Public Health, general.; Biomedicine, general.

Mental illness occurs in all communities, regardless of social status, gender, race, or culture. Despite this, research in mental health historically has been biased towards Western-centric heterosexual male models of disease. Many models of service have excluded sexual and ethnic minorities and may...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword
• Introduction
• Differences in prevalence of mental health with the inclusion of diversity, gender and lifespan
• Diversity and lifespan
• Woman, gender and diversity
• Diversity and gender differences in treatment
• Global Mental health - services and access to care
• Mental Health/GMH prevention & promotion with the inclusion of diversity & gender
• Governance, diplomacy, and politics
• Conclusion.