INDS 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Global Mental Health, Non-Communicable Disease, Disability-Adjusted Life Year

• School: McGill University
• Department: Interndisciplinary Studies
• Course: INDS 111
• Professor: Anne Andermann

Document Summary

Global mental health: mh of pop globally, seen from an inclusive perspective. It transcends any individual nation, or requires a global approach to be tackled. The issues often will have a global impact, ultiatemly as a political and economic level. Reducing the overall burden of mental health conditions by reducing the treatment gap in. Acting on "global" influences on mental health in ways that transcend national borders, class, race, gender, ethnicity and culture (eg. climate change, natural disasters, social effective ways determinants and inequity ) Controversy in classification due to: being complex, few usable bio markers, variable behavioural expression. Ph policy under-represented the impact of mh until they were better defined, treatments became more available, morbidity was understood, and non-communicable diseases increased. Daly"s : sum of years lost due to premature mortality (yll) and years lost due to disability. Mortality + morbidity also includes years of "healthy" life lost in states of less than full.