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Shidhaye R. Mental health of the Pacific Island Nation communities: What the rest in the world can contribute to and learn from? Australas Psychiatry 2024:10398562241278542. [PMID: 39216877 DOI: 10.1177/10398562241278542] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/04/2024]
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INTRODUCTION Creating Futures initiative has established a network of mental health professionals, researchers, and community members from the Pacific Island Nations (PIN), Australia, and New Zealand to address the growing challenges of mental health conditions compounded by the climate change crisis. The enormous amount of work done in Global Mental Health can be particularly helpful to improve population-level mental health. However, translation of this evidence base into practice poses several challenges. OBJECTIVE This perspective paper discusses the role of local culture and health systems context in determining the feasibility and acceptability of implementing and scaling up evidence-based interventions designed in an American-European context. The paper also advocates development (and evaluation) of mental health interventions in the PIN communities particularly and Global South generally and exporting these interventions to the rest of the world. CONCLUSIONS COVID-19 crisis underlined the role of global cooperation as well as national level 'self-reliance'. In this post COVID-19 world, it will be desirable for the mental health community to cooperate and collaborate to scale up evidence-based interventions through rigorous contextualization and at the same time main-stream mental health interventions developed in the Global South by incorporating them in the Global Mental Health discourse.
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- Rahul Shidhaye
- Pravara Institute of Medical Sciences, Loni, India
- Department of Health, Ethics and Society, Care and Public Health Research Institute, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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Mento C, Damiani F, La Versa M, Cedro C, Muscatello MRA, Bruno A, Fabio RA, Silvestri MC. Eco-Anxiety: An Evolutionary Line from Psychology to Psychopathology. MEDICINA (KAUNAS, LITHUANIA) 2023; 59:2053. [PMID: 38138156 PMCID: PMC10744953 DOI: 10.3390/medicina59122053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2023] [Revised: 10/24/2023] [Accepted: 10/25/2023] [Indexed: 12/24/2023]
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According to the scientific literature, climate change, due to human activities, can damage the environment, with psycho-physical consequences for humans. The scientific literature has highlighted how severe weather events can cause fear, stress, concern for the future, and eco-anxiety. In light of this information, this study aims to explore the concept of eco-anxiety. However, climate change is still perceived as a secondary problem. It would also be worth investigating the real importance that people attach to environmental issues compared to other circumstances, such as wars or pandemics.
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- Carmela Mento
- Department of Biomedical and Dental Sciences and Morphofunctional Imaging, University of Messina, Via Consolare Valeria 1, Contesse, 98125 Messina, Italy; (C.C.); (M.R.A.M.); (A.B.)
- Psychiatry Unit, Polyclinic Hospital University of Messina, Via Consolare Valeria 1, Contesse, 98125 Messina, Italy; (F.D.); (M.L.V.); (M.C.S.)
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- Psychiatry Unit, Polyclinic Hospital University of Messina, Via Consolare Valeria 1, Contesse, 98125 Messina, Italy; (F.D.); (M.L.V.); (M.C.S.)
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- Psychiatry Unit, Polyclinic Hospital University of Messina, Via Consolare Valeria 1, Contesse, 98125 Messina, Italy; (F.D.); (M.L.V.); (M.C.S.)
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- Department of Biomedical and Dental Sciences and Morphofunctional Imaging, University of Messina, Via Consolare Valeria 1, Contesse, 98125 Messina, Italy; (C.C.); (M.R.A.M.); (A.B.)
- Psychiatry Unit, Polyclinic Hospital University of Messina, Via Consolare Valeria 1, Contesse, 98125 Messina, Italy; (F.D.); (M.L.V.); (M.C.S.)
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- Department of Biomedical and Dental Sciences and Morphofunctional Imaging, University of Messina, Via Consolare Valeria 1, Contesse, 98125 Messina, Italy; (C.C.); (M.R.A.M.); (A.B.)
- Psychiatry Unit, Polyclinic Hospital University of Messina, Via Consolare Valeria 1, Contesse, 98125 Messina, Italy; (F.D.); (M.L.V.); (M.C.S.)
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- Department of Biomedical and Dental Sciences and Morphofunctional Imaging, University of Messina, Via Consolare Valeria 1, Contesse, 98125 Messina, Italy; (C.C.); (M.R.A.M.); (A.B.)
- Psychiatry Unit, Polyclinic Hospital University of Messina, Via Consolare Valeria 1, Contesse, 98125 Messina, Italy; (F.D.); (M.L.V.); (M.C.S.)
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- Department of Economics, University of Messina, Via dei Verdi 75, 98122 Messina, Italy;
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- Psychiatry Unit, Polyclinic Hospital University of Messina, Via Consolare Valeria 1, Contesse, 98125 Messina, Italy; (F.D.); (M.L.V.); (M.C.S.)
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Palinkas LA, O’Donnell M, Kemp S, Tiatia J, Duque Y, Spencer M, Basu R, Del Rosario KI, Diemer K, Doma B, Forbes D, Gibson K, Graff-Zivin J, Harris BM, Hawley N, Johnston J, Lauraya F, Maniquiz NEF, Marlowe J, McCord GC, Nicholls I, Rao S, Saunders AK, Sortino S, Springgate B, Takeuchi D, Ugsang J, Villaverde V, Wells KB, Wong M. Regional Research-Practice-Policy Partnerships in Response to Climate-Related Disparities: Promoting Health Equity in the Pacific. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2022; 19:9758. [PMID: 35955120 PMCID: PMC9368677 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph19159758] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2022] [Revised: 08/04/2022] [Accepted: 08/06/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Although climate change poses a threat to health and well-being globally, a regional approach to addressing climate-related health equity may be more suitable, appropriate, and appealing to under-resourced communities and countries. In support of this argument, this commentary describes an approach by a network of researchers, practitioners, and policymakers dedicated to promoting climate-related health equity in Small Island Developing States and low- and middle-income countries in the Pacific. We identify three primary sets of needs related to developing a regional capacity to address physical and mental health disparities through research, training, and assistance in policy and practice implementation: (1) limited healthcare facilities and qualified medical and mental health providers; (2) addressing the social impacts related to the cooccurrence of natural hazards, disease outbreaks, and complex emergencies; and (3) building the response capacity and resilience to climate-related extreme weather events and natural hazards.
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- Lawrence A. Palinkas
- Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
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- Phoenix Australia, Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia
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- School of Counseling, Human Services and Social Work, University of Auckland, Auckland 1010, New Zealand
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- Te Wānanga o Waipapa, School of Māori Studies and Pacific Studies at the University of Auckland, Auckland 1010, New Zealand
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- Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, Bangkok 10400, Thailand
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- School of Social Work, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA), California Environmental Protection Agency, Sacramento, CA 95812, USA
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- School of Social Work, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Mapua University, Manila 1102, Philippines
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- Phoenix Australia, Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia
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- Phoenix Australia, Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia
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- School of Global Policy and Strategy, University of California, San Diego, CA 92093, USA
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- Provincial Government of New Ireland, Kavieng 631, Papua New Guinea
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- Department of Epidemiology and Chronic Disease, School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90007, USA
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- Office of the President, University of Nueva Caceres, Naga 4400, Philippines
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- School of Counseling, Human Services and Social Work, University of Auckland, Auckland 1010, New Zealand
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- School of Global Policy and Strategy, University of California, San Diego, CA 92093, USA
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- International Organization for Migration, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
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- College of Social Work, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- International Organization for Migration, Majuro 96960, Marshall Islands
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- School of Medicine, LSU Health Sciences Center—New Orleans, School of Medicine and School of Public Health, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA
- School of Public Health, LSU Health Sciences Center—New Orleans, School of Medicine and School of Public Health, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA
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- School of Social Work, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, Bangkok 10400, Thailand
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- Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
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- Center for Health Services and Society, Jane and Terry Semel Institute, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
- Department of Health Policy and Management, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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- Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
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