East Meets West: Current Mental Health Burdens in Greater China

Principles of Social Psychiatry: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 517-530

  Ng, Roger M K ^a   Li, Zhanjiang ^b  

^a KOWLOON HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

^b CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China, tremendous burden of mental disorder; China, vast and heterogeneous country undergoing rapid and tremendous changes; Current mental health care provisions in China; Depression, less prevalent in Asian regions, Japan, Taiwan and Mainland China than in Western societies; East meets west current mental health burdens in greater China; Mental health burden and service structure in China; Psychoses, serious and emerging problems in China; Societal transformation of China from First Opium War immense and unimaginable; Traditional values of Chinese culture a substantial blow in last 50 years; WHO 1999 World Health Report's suggestion that suicide is China's fourth most important public health problem

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885855638     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470684214.ch39     Document Type: Chapter

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