Guidelines for social mobilization
TB and poverty; TB and children; TB and women; TB, migrants and refugees; TB and prisons
WHO/CDS/STB/2001.9
Original: English; Distribution: Limited
For emergency relief staff
Stop TB Communicable Diseases
BMJ VOLUME 322 24 FEBRUARY 2001 bmj.com
Understanding Cultural Diversity in Mental Health
The Global Campaign Against Epilepsy “Out of the Shadows”
Contact No 175 - October December 2001
…voices of persons with disabilities - Part 1
In support of the African decade of disabled persons | 1st January 199 - 31st of December 2009
First edition, November 1997 | Revised July 2002
The rise of the discourse of 'trauma' as a major articulator of suffering within Western culture is a facet of the medicalization of life that has gathered pace in the last century. In recent years, Western mental health professionals have been increasingly involved in services addressing the plight... of war-affected populations - largely non-Western - in war zones or as refugees. Querying the extent to which their experiences can be reduced to a matter of mental health, this article addresses child refugees from war via three questions that go to the heart of the debate about how they are to be understood, the implications for their future maturation as individuals and citizens, and the role of psychological therapies aimed at catharsis of 'traumatic' memory.
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Disaster Preparedness Training Programme