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Good Mental Health Care: What It Is, What It Is Not & What It …

WebArthur Kleinman, a Fellow of the American Academy since 1992, is the Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University, and Professor of Medical …

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Introduction: How Mental Health Matters American Academy of …

WebThe underpinnings of today’s mental health crisis include both social structural inequities and neurobiological vulnerabilities. The COVID-19 pandemic has compounded and …

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Trust in Medicine, the Health System & Public Health

WebRobert J. Blendon is the Richard L. Menschel Professor of Public Health and Professor of Health Policy and Political Analysis, Emeritus, at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public …

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The Missing Piece: A Population Health Perspective to Address the …

WebThe solid boxes depict different potential interventions, each of which can be implemented at either the individual or population level. We argue that, where feasible, 1) population …

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Mental Health American Academy of Arts and Sciences

WebWe are all vulnerable to emotional distress. COVID-19 made as much clear, subjecting many of us to the prolonged pain of isolation, loneliness, job and housing insecurity, and …

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Introduction American Academy of Arts and Sciences

WebTwo hundred seventy-four million people—one in thirty people on the planet—are in humanitarian need as of September 2022.1 More than one hundred …

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Mental Health’s Stalled (Biological) Revolution: Its Origins, …

WebThe 1980s, by common consensus, saw a big and remarkably rapid pivot away from previously dominant psychoanalytic and social science perspectives in American …

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Margaret A. Hamburg American Academy of Arts and Sciences

WebMargaret (Peggy) Hamburg, an internationally recognized leader in public health and medicine, is co-president of the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP), an international …

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Karen Davis American Academy of Arts and Sciences

WebDr. Karen Davis is the Eugene and Mildred Lipitz Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Director …

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Susan Desmond-Hellmann American Academy of Arts and Sciences

WebSusan Desmond-Hellmann is the Chief Executive Officer of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Over her impressive career, she also served as the Chancellor of the …

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Rethinking Psychiatry: Solutions for a Sociogenic Crisis

WebThis essay draws on Frantz Fanon’s insights about the sociogenesis of psychiatric disorders, and on the insights of feminist standpoint theory, to sketch a map toward …

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Patients Are Humans Too: The Emergence of Medical Humanities

WebThis essay describes the origins, growth, and transformation of the medical humanities over the past six decades, drawing on the insights of ethicists, physicians, historians, patients, …

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The Humanities in American Life: Transforming the Relationship …

WebDepending on how you look at it, the humanities in America are either racing down a steep decline or entering a state of renewal and vitality. The challenges facing the academic …

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Global Population Aging: Facts, Challenges, Solutions & Perspectives

WebThe rapid aging of populations around the world presents an unprecedented set of challenges: shifting disease burden, increased expenditure on health and long-term …

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Fred E. Cohen American Academy of Arts and Sciences

WebDr. Fred E. Cohen was a Professor of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, Medicine, and Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of California, San …

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Colorism Colorism In The Black Community Colorism In America

WebFor many decades now, social scientists have documented immense ethnoracial inequalities in the United States. Much of this work is rooted in comparing the life chances, …

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American Gun Violence & Mental Illness: Reducing Risk, Restoring …

WebIntentional injuries claimed nearly two hundred lives every day in the United States in 2020, about two-thirds of them suicides, each a story of irretrievable human loss. This essay …

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Indigenous Historical Trauma: Alter-Native Explanations for Mental

WebThe well-being of American Indian and other Indigenous communities has long been compromised by ruthless processes of European colonial dispossession and …

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