scholarly journals The World Health Organization's QualityRights materials for training, guidance and transformation: preventing coercion but marginalising psychiatry

2021 ◽  
Vol 218 (5) ◽  
pp. 240-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fiona Hoare ◽  
Richard M. Duffy
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
World Health ◽  
Involuntary Treatment ◽  
Training Material ◽  
The World ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
Health Organization

SummaryThe World Health Organization has developed training material to support its QualityRights Initiative. These documents offer excellent strategies to limit coercion. However, the negative portrayal of psychiatry, the absolute prohibition on involuntary treatment and the apparent acceptance of the criminalisation of individuals with mental illness are causes for concern.

A hybrid depressive mood analysis model to detect blogger depression tendency from web posts (Preprint)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
ChiaMing Tung ◽  
WenHsiang Lu
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
Negative Emotion ◽  
Depressive Mood ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
World Health ◽  
Analysis Model ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization

UNSTRUCTURED n recent years, reports of suicide have continuously increased because of people suffering from tremendous pressure or depression. Depression is listed as the third highest health issue from the World Health Organization. They also predict that depression will become the second highest issue by 2020. This kind of mental illness is difficult to diagnose and detect. In our previous works, we proposed a Negative Emotion Evaluation (NEE) model and an Event-Driven Depression Tendency Warning (EDDTW) model to early detect depressive moods. In this work, we combine the previous models to propose a Hybrid Depressive Mood Analysis (HDMA) model to predict the depression from web posts. The experimental results show that our proposed hybrid depressive mood analysis model obtains over 70% precision.

scholarly journals Substance use and duration of untreated psychosis in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glen P. Davis ◽  
Andrew Tomita ◽  
Joy Noel Baumgartner ◽  
Sisanda Mtshemla ◽  
Siphumelele Nene ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Substance Use ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
World Health ◽  
Duration Of Untreated Psychosis ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Kwazulu Natal ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization

<p><strong>Background:</strong> Substance use and psychiatric disorders cause significant burden of disease in low- and middle-income countries. Co-morbid psychopathology and longer duration of untreated psychosis (DUP) can negatively affect treatment outcomes.</p><p><strong>Objectives:</strong> The study assessed substance use amongst adults with severe mental illness receiving services at a regional psychiatric hospital in KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa). We describe the prevalence and correlates of lifetime substance use and examine the association between substance use and DUP.</p><p><strong>Methods:</strong> A cross-sectional survey recruited adults diagnosed with severe mental illness and assessed lifetime and past 3-month substance use using the World Health Organization Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test. Regression analyses were conducted to determine associations between lifetime substance use (other than alcohol and tobacco) and DUP as measured by the World Health Organization Encounter Form.</p><p><strong>Results:</strong> Amongst 87 participants, alcohol (81.6%), tobacco (75.6%) and cannabis (49.4%) were the most common substances reported for lifetime use. Risk of health-related problems (health, social, financial, legal and relationship) of cannabis use was associated with younger age, single marital status and lower education. Adjusted regression analyses indicated that use of amphetamines and methaqualone is associated with longer DUP.</p><p><strong>Conclusions:</strong> Substance use is prevalent amongst psychiatric patients in KwaZulu-Natal and may contribute to longer DUP. Mental health services in this region should address co-morbid substance use and psychiatric disorders.</p><p><strong>Keywords: </strong>Substance Use; Psychosis; KwaZulu-Natal</p>

scholarly journals Mental health services in Libya

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 70-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdul Hakim Rhouma ◽  
Nusrat Husain ◽  
Nadeem Gire ◽  
Imran Bashir Chaudhry
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
Basic Needs ◽  
World Health ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization

Despite all the internal and external criticisms of mental health services in Libya, they remain underdeveloped across the country. The World Health Organization has made efforts to improve the country's mental health services; however, until a stable government is formed, patients with mental illness will continue to be deprived of their basic needs.

Erstes Instrument zur standardisierten Erfassung der Teilhabe Behinderter

2017 ◽  
Vol 79 (07) ◽  
pp. 526-527
Keyword(s):  
World Health Organization ◽  
World Health ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Menschen Mit Behinderung

Coenen M et al. [Recommendation for the collection and analysis of data on participation and disability from the perspective of the World Health Organization]. Bundesgesundheitsblatt Gesundheitsforschung Gesundheitsschutz 2016; 59: 1060–1067 Um eine gleichberechtigte Teilhabe an der Gesellschaft von Menschen mit Behinderung zu ermöglichen, werden zunächst Daten zu vorhandenen Einschränkungen gebraucht. Erst wenn diese detailliert erhoben wurden, können Konzepte zur Beseitigung von Problemen entwickelt werden. Ein standardisiertes Erhebungsinstrument für alle Aspekte der Funktionsfähigkeit fehlte jedoch bisher.

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