BIOM30001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Non-Communicable Disease, Baud, Mental Disorder

• School: University of Melbourne
• Department: Biomedicine
• Course: BIOM30001
• Professor: Terry Mulhern

Document Summary

Lecture 28 mental health: global perspectives and human rights. Individual attributes, including genetics and personal experience family history of mental disorder, exposure to adversity at a young age, substance abuse. Social, cultural, economic, political and environmental factors living conditions, housing, employment, national economic and social policies, con ict, etc. Not all groups are at equal risk of developing a mental disorder marginalised and otherwise disadvantaged groups (poor, minorities, unemployed, people experiencing systematic discrimination, etc. are at substantially higher risk. Four main findings: huge global loss in output. From 2011 to 2030: total lost output from ncds and mental illness. Failure of human rights protection for people with mental illness. I. e 60,000 schizophrenics in indonesia chained up etc. tormented: inadequate investment in health programs and inadequate rights protections, discrimination housing, education, employment, social exclusion, abuse, neglect, stigma and in more severe cases, illegal restraint and con nement.