Medical Xpress August 5, 2024
Dr. Kaaren Mathias has coordinated an international team studying the value of community mental health assets in Ghana, India, Occupied Palestine and South Africa.
Dr. Mathias is a public health physician and Senior Lecturer in the School of Health Sciences at Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury (UC). She was one of 39 academics and community-based collaborators from 24 countries brought together by King’s College London to explore how mental health care is defined and delivered when medical or Western resources are not accessible or available.
The work is published in the journal PLOS Global Public Health.
The group sought to challenge the deficit model of public health that tends to measure low-income countries against the cultural...
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