Access to Mental Health Care in South Asia: Current Status, Potential Challenges, and Ways Out
Arafat, S. M. Yasir, Kar, Sujita Kumar
- 出版商: Springer
- 出版日期: 2024-04-07
- 售價: $3,980
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $3,781
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 243
- 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
- ISBN: 9819991528
- ISBN-13: 9789819991525
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商品描述
This book is about access to mental health care in South Asia. South Asia consists of eight countries with low and middle-income backgrounds. The region contains a combined population of about 2 billion, making up about a quarter of the global population. The people of this region share common cultures, beliefs, and behavioral patterns regarding physical and mental health. Among them, about 15% (about 300 million) have been suffering from common mental disorders. However, there is a persisting high treatment gap for mental illness in the region. Hence, despite having a mental illness, only a small percentage of the population is able to have access to essential mental healthcare. Though governments are trying to bridge the gap by improving mental health policies and programs, it is still a major challenge delivering mental healthcare to all people in need. Due to the income category and dual disease burden of the countries, there are some additional enduring challenges like poor funding and research, inadequate and inequitable manpower, huge out-of-pocket expenses, poor mental health literacy, income disparity, and high stigma. This book aims to highlight the issues related to accessing mental health services in a densely populated low and middle-income setting. This book is the first of its kind in comparing and contrasting the delivery status of mental health services in South Asian countries.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
這本書探討南亞地區的心理健康照護問題。南亞地區包括八個低收入和中等收入國家，總人口約20億，佔全球人口的四分之一。這個地區的人們在身心健康方面有共同的文化、信仰和行為模式。其中約有15%（約3億人）患有常見的心理疾病。然而，該地區的心理疾病治療差距仍然很大。因此，儘管患有心理疾病，只有少數人能夠獲得必要的心理健康照護。雖然各國政府正在努力改善心理健康政策和計劃，但在所有需要的人中提供心理照護仍然是一個重大挑戰。由於這些國家的收入水平和雙重疾病負擔，還存在一些持久的挑戰，如資金和研究不足、人力資源不足且不公平、高額自負費用、心理健康識字率低、收入差距大和社會污名化嚴重。這本書旨在突出密集人口的低收入和中等收入地區在獲取心理健康服務方面的問題。這本書是首次比較和對比南亞國家心理健康服務提供狀況的著作。
作者簡介
Dr. S. M. Yasir Arafat is currently working as an Assistant Professor
of Psychiatry at Enam Medical College and Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
He completed MD in Psychiatry from Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib MedicalUniversity, Dhaka and MBBS from the Dhaka Medical College, Dhaka,
Bangladesh. He also did an MPH in Health Economics and MBA in
Marketing. Dr. Arafat has (co)authored more than 300 peer-reviewedarticles and book chapters, and (co)edited several books with
Springer. He has been included in the global 2% researcher list in
2021, 2022, and 2023. He is acting as an editorial member in more than10 leading journals in mental health published by Frontiers, Wiley,
Hindawi, Springer, and Taylor and Francis. His research focused on
suicidal behavior, psychometrics, panic buying, and psycho-sexualdisorders.
Dr. Sujita Kumar Kar is currently working as an Associate Professor of
Psychiatry at King George's Medical University, Lucknow, UttarPradesh, India. He is the editor in chief of Indian Journal of Health,
Sexuality and Culture. He is also the editorial board member and
reviewer of various national and international journals. He haswritten 62 book chapters and more than 450 articles in various
national & international journals, five monographs, and made 70
presentations at various national and international conferences. Hehas been included in the global 2% researcher list released by
Stanford University in 2021 and 2022. His research interests include
brain stimulation, neuropsychiatry, and suicide prevention.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
Dr. S. M. Yasir Arafat目前在孟加拉國達卡的Enam醫學院和醫院擔任精神病學助理教授。他在孟加拉國達卡的Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib醫科大學完成了精神病學博士學位，並在達卡醫學院獲得了MBBS學位。他還獲得了健康經濟學碩士學位和市場營銷碩士學位。Arafat博士（合著）撰寫了300多篇同行評審的文章和專書章節，並與Springer合作編輯了幾本書籍。他在2021年、2022年和2023年被列入全球2%的研究人員名單。他在由Frontiers、Wiley、Hindawi、Springer和Taylor and Francis出版的10多本領先精神健康期刊中擔任編輯成員。他的研究主要集中在自殺行為、心理測量學、囤積購買和心理性障礙方面。
Dr. Sujita Kumar Kar目前在印度北方邦拉克瑪瑙的King George's醫科大學擔任精神病學副教授。他是《印度健康、性和文化雜誌》的主編，也是各種國內外期刊的編輯委員會成員和審稿人。他在各種國內外期刊上撰寫了62篇專書章節和450多篇文章，出版了五本專著，並在各種國內外會議上發表了70次演講。他在2021年和2022年被斯坦福大學列入全球2%的研究人員名單。他的研究興趣包括腦刺激、神經精神病學和自殺預防。
