Global mental health and its discontents: AN inquiry into the making of global and local scale

Transcultural Psychiatry

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 850-874

  Bemme, Doerte ^a   D’souza, Nicole A ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Community; global mental health; global local dichotomy; scale making

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH; HUMAN; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GLOBAL MENTAL HEALTH; HUMAN RIGHTS; KNOWLEDGE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; POLITICAL SYSTEM;

CULTURE; EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH;

EID: 84911464001     PISSN: 13634615     EISSN: 14617471     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1363461514539830     Document Type: Article

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