Environmental Health in Emergencies and Disasters
Chapter 10
Understanding Cultural Diversity in Mental Health
The report discusses the epidemiological and social aspects of ageing, health and functional changes experienced with ageing, the impact of physical activity, assessment of the nutritional status of older persons, and nutritional guidelines for healthy ageing.
A guide to protocol development for low-income countries
In support of the African decade of disabled persons | 1st January 199 - 31st of December 2009
Disaster Preparedness Training Programme
Towards the Peoples Health Assembly Book -5
Towards the Peoples Health Assembly Book -1
Towards the Peoples Health Assembly Book - 5
Towards the Peoples Health Assembly Book - 1
Disaster Preparedness Training Programme
Disaster Preparedness Training Programme
Disaster Preparedness Training Programme
Disaster Preparedness Training Programme
This document adopts a health determinants framework for examining the evidence related to women’s poor mental health. From this perspective, public policy including economic policy, socio-cultural and environmental factors, community and social support, stressors and life events, personal behavio...ur and skills, and availability and access to health services, are all seen to exercise a role in determining women’s mental health status. Similarly, when considering the differences between women and men, a gender approach has been used. While this does not exclude biological or sex differences, it considers the critical roles that social and cultural factors and unequal power relations between men and women play in promoting or impeding mental health. Such inequalities create, maintain and exacerbate exposure to risk factors that endanger women’s mental health, and are most graphically illustrated in the significantly different rates of depression between men and women, poverty and its impact, and the phenomenal prevalence of violence against women.
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