Paper: "How can we mainstream mental health in research engaging SDGs? -

A theory of change." i

This paper caught my eye on twitter, quite a while ago - the combination of mental health and SDGs:

Madill A, Bhola P, Colucci E, Croucher K, Evans A, et al. (2022) How can we mainstream mental health in research engaging the range of Sustainable Development Goals? A theory of change. PLOS Global Public Health 2(8): e0000837. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0000837

"The recently updated WHO Comprehensive Mental Health Action Plan 2013–2030 [1] concurs with this vision in that two of its six cross-cutting principles are: (i) a multi-sectoral approach, and (ii) action on social determinants. This acknowledges that “integrating mental health across wider sectors such as education, employment and social welfare helps address social determinants of mental health and ensures a comprehensive and holistic approach” [7 p12]. Shen, Eaton and Snowden [8] investigated mental health mainstreaming in 42 countries in terms of a shift towards providing mental health care from institutional to community settings. They concluded that “different countries have adapted deinstitutionalization in ways to meet idiosyncratic situations and population needs” [7 p313] and that more needs to be done with regard to management and implementation strategies. While the keyword for Shen, Eaton and Snowden [8] is ‘deinstitutionalisation’, for Gómez-Dantés and Frenk [9] it is ‘integration,’ and they provide a dimensional approach with regard to what is involved in mainstreaming mental health: “(i) incorporating mental disorders to the global and local agendas related to NCDs [non-communicable diseases]; ii) moving away both from the biological and sociological reductionisms around mental health prevalent in the past century; iii) addressing the whole range of conditions related to mental health; iv) migrating from the idea that mental diseases have to be treated in secluded clinical spaces; and v) expanding the use of a comprehensive approach in the treatment of these disorders, which includes medication, psychotherapy and other types of therapies” [9 p214]." p.2/23

Selected concepts are related to Hodges' model below. In addition to the 2x2 table below, it may be useful for visitors to consider the paper's figures against the model? There is no doubt an overlap across the care / knowledge domains of Hodges' model, but hopefully the 'holistic bandwidth' of the model and its potential as a generic conceptual framework will also be highlighted. 

Note for example the way mention of 'clinical' tends to attract care (understandably) to clinics, hospitals, institutions, controlled (mechanistic) spaces where resources can be controlled and concentrated. Additionally, to find appropriate concepts, we must appreciate how 'local' is applied not only geographically, regionally, but culturally also - within and across a community, or several.

Hodges' model provides several disciplinary bridges of relevance here:

• psycho-political
• psycho-social
• socio-economic
• socio-political
• bio-social

I will revisit the paper again soon ii.

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intra-personal - mental health  (contribution to individual's overall health status) self advocacy qualitative evidence mental health practitioners psychotherapy, counselling individual health literacy/education "Implications for researchers include: recognising the potential of their projects to have psycho-	quantitative evidence time, environment, geography - locale treatment resources (time and physical - space) digital technologies 'clinical' seclusion spaces multiple locally-appropriate concepts 'clinical spaces' seclusion/isolation
-social wellbeing impact"* "collaborating with local communities, researchers, and service providers to effect change." "developing a more inclusive and flexible language around mental health that bridges cultures and disciplines ..." multiple locally-appropriate concepts resources  - social, family, community	LMICs - 'workforce gap' shift from institutionalised to community settings security - conflict advocacy resources $$$ income/welfare/micro-finances/ banking/digital access legislation, policies, strategies and services

*The paper also refers to "psychosocial disabilities".

My source (twitter):

https://twitter.com/PLOSGPH/status/1565066449798205440?s=20

Madill A, Bhola P, Colucci E, Croucher K, Evans A, et al. (2022) How can we mainstream mental health in research engaging the range of Sustainable Development Goals? A theory of change. PLOS Global Public Health 2(8): e0000837. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0000837

2021/22 Human Development Report: Uncertain Times, Unsettled Lives: Shaping our Future in a Transforming World

On Friday, 9 September 2022 at 00:37:02 BST, Dennis Raphael <draphael@yorku.ca> wrote:

Canada ranked 15^th… UK 18^th…

From: Pophealth <pophealth-bounces AT mailman13.u.washington.edu> On Behalf Of Stephen Bezruchka
Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2022 6:21 PM
To: pophealth AT u.washington.edu
Subject: [Pophealth] 2021 Health Olympics & vast US Health decline

Today the UN released its human development report with life expectancy for 2021. You can access it (Table 1) at http://report.hdr.undp.org.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/

I've been using the UN rankings to create the health Olympics since the early 1990s for consistency. The U.S. ranks 44th, down from tied for 36 in 2019.  We are 7.6 years behind the longest lived country, Japan.  If we eradicated our three leading killers (heart disease, cancer, and COVID-19), we would be close to the first in the finish line.  In the UN rankings Thailand is now ahead of us!  And quite a few poorer nations.  

Trying to get action on our not being dead first is challenging.  

Stephen

Stephen Bezruchka MD, MPH
Departments of Health Systems and Population Health & of Global Health
School of Public Health 
Box 357660 
University of Washington 
Seattle, Washington 98195-7660

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My source - Dennis Raphael: draphael AT yorku.ca (with additional image c/o UNDP).

Politics of Health Group Mail List Messages

Visit the PoHG website for lots of interesting links and publications: http://www.pohg.org.uk/

Visit PoHG on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/282761111845400

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#HelloMyNameIs

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Peter	Geography Geo-Political
Jones	‘Türkiye’

My source: numerous.https://twitter.com/imathematicians/status/1530724466073952261?s=20&t=eF1XRD9HbkSJ2XWWbIk2qQ

New citation / reference for Hodges' model in J Adv Nurs.

 

Here is the new reference to Hodges' model which I have added to the bibliography:

Hamilton EAA, Dornan L, Sinclair M, McCoy J, Hanna-Trainor L, Kernohan WG. A scoping review protocol: Mapping the range of policy-related evidence influencing maternal health outcomes in a fragile, low-income country. J Adv Nurs. 2021 Jul 20. doi: 10.1111/jan.14956. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34288043. 

Whatever your field if you are interested in learning more about Hodges' model I would be pleased to hear from you - whether or not you are in a 'field' and whatever colour it happens to be green, blue, red, black-white.

Ack. Research Gate's alert.

Action Brief: WHO COVID-19 Health Services Learning Hub (HLH)

 Online call for submissions

Thank you for your interest in contributing to an action brief for the WHO COVID-19 Health Services Learning Hub (HLH). Please find below an overview of the HLH and further information on how to submit your action brief. If you have further questions, please contact us at hlh AT who.int.

Overview

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, countries have requested urgent support from WHO to maintain their health services whilst mounting their pandemic response.
 
The WHO COVID19: Health Services Learning Hub is a dynamic new web-based platform that will allow the critical sharing of experiences and learning from innovative practices to inform the collective global response in real time. This will include action briefs on promising examples of innovation to maintain essential health services, synthesis briefs on key emerging learning needs, dynamic learning labs to solve common challenges and a ‘one stop shop’ for up to date information from WHO and partners.

 

The learning hub will be based on WHO’s Operational guidance for maintaining essential health services during an outbreak, which provides a set of targeted actions countries should take at national, regional, and local levels to reorganize and maintain access to essential quality health services for all.  

The immediate focus of the learning hub will be on maintaining essential health services during the outbreak. In the medium to longer term the hub will focus on health service recovery in the post-acute phase of the pandemic and health services strengthening in the post-pandemic phase.

Action Briefs ... continued

 

Thanks to Jagoda - HLH 

 

IFORS Developing Countries Online Resources

New documents joined - further ones are welcome

IFORS Developing Countries Online Resources 

The aim of the IFORS Developing Countries Online Resources page is to offer the OR worker all publicly-available materials on the topic of OR for Development. It also aims to provide a venue for people who are working in the area to share their completed or in-process work, learn from others, and stimulate comments and discussions on the work. Regarding IFORS Developing Countries OR resources website, its regular updates - and your possible submission of "free" (not copyright protected) material, you might occasionally visit

http://ifors.org/developing_countries/index.php?title=Main_Page

With this open resources page we aim to make research and application results better accessible to the many friends in the Developing Countries. We would be glad about interest. Contributions from the science, communication and education sectors are warmly welcome by our community which has very little access to emerging documents on arts and science, research and technology. "Operational Research" (OR) is the discipline of applying advanced analytical methods to help make better decisions. By using techniques such as problem structuring methods and mathematical modelling to analyze complex situations, Operational Research gives executives the power to make more effective decisions and build more productive systems. 

The International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS; http://ifors.org/) is an almost 60-year old organization which is currently composed of 51 national societies. 

Regional Groups of IFORS are: ALIO (The Latin American Ibero Association on Operations Research), APORS (The Association of Asian-Pacific Operational Research Societies), EURO (The Association of European Operational Research Societies), NORAM (The Association of North American Operations Research Societies). 

IFORS conferences are taking place every three years. On IFORS 2021, Seoul, South Korea, August 22-27, 2021, please refer to http://www.ifors2020.kr/

Thank you very much for your attention. 

With kind regards, best wishes,

Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber 

PS: Feedback is welcome via gerhard.weber AT put.poznan.pl

My source:

www.jiscmail.ac.uk/AI-SGES 

 

Cate Blanchett: What is statelessness? | #iBelong UNHCR

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My mental health I	Geography Maps of Identity - Maps of States Borders Location of parent's birth; my birth My physical health
Belong families social inclusion / exclusion relationships SOCIO-economics SOCIAL capital Quality of Lfe Cultural background / heritage

My source:

https://twitter.com/Refugees/status/1289470924865933313?s=20

Here is the News: another "Brilliant Map"

Or, to be more precise -

"Brilliant Maps"

An Atlas for Curious Minds – 100 New Ways to See the World

A new book released 5 November 2019:

Brilliant Maps - Book

"Which nations have North Korean embassies? How many countries have bigger economies than California? Who drives on the “wrong” side of the road? And where can you find lions in the wild?

In Brilliant Maps for Curious Minds, you’ll learn all this and much more. One hundred visually arresting maps strike a balance between sobering analysis (number of executions by state) and whimsical insight (the countries of the world where there aren’t any McDonald’s).

Thought-provoking and flat-out fun, this one-of-a-kind atlas—compiled by the editor of the popular Brilliant Maps website—makes surprising connections that illuminate the contours of culture, history, and politics. Brilliant Maps for Curious Minds will change the way you see the world—and your place in it".

See also:

https://www.infographic.ly/


My source:
Wright, I. The World as you've Never Seen It, The Sunday Times Magazine, 27 October 2019, pp.26-31.
 

Commentary: Global health journals need to address equity, diversity and inclusion c/o BMJ Global Health

HICs: high-income countries
LMICs: low-income and middle-income countries


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Individual experience & values Leader	Task - EDITING - Process < PARACHUTE > ---------------- RESEARCH LOCATION  global south
Leadership Roles INCLUSION - DIVERSITY Community of Practice Collective Values Values LMIC - expertise HIC Colonialism	Figure 1 Global health editors and editorial board members according to location, gender and group. Group 1 included editors-in-chief, or those in leadership roles; group 2 included senior, deputy or associate editors; and group 3 included editorial board or advisory board members. HICs, high-income countries; LMICs, low-income and middle-income countries.

Nafade V, Sen P, Pai M. Global health journals need to address equity, diversity and inclusion. BMJ Global Health 2019;4:e002018

Targeting poverty (in Hodges' model) c/o The Economist

"Indian politicians are promising more cash for the poor. They should be less selective. "

[ by the quarter - make progress ...? ]


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"Targeting welfare is costly and difficult in a country like India.

If it looks for signs such as straw roofs, it will almost certainly miss many poor people, especially in the cities.

How is the state supposed to identify the poorest 50m households in a country where income and spending are so hard to track?

The political economy of targeted schemes is also tricky. In countries with minimal welfare states, schemes with few beneficiaries also have few supporters, and therefore risk being quietly wound down or diminished by inflation. And any formula used to target the bottom 20% is likely to be so opaque that people will never know whether they should have been included or not, so cannot fight for their entitlements."

"Two years ago a government report suggested a bold new approach. Instead of a universal basic income - an idea doing the rounds in rich countries - create a nearly universal scheme from which you exclude the richest quarter of the population."

Source: Leaders. Welfare in India: The beauty of breadth. The Economist, April 6, 2019, p.14.
Print edition.
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2019/04/06/a-better-anti-poverty-plan-for-india

Physico-Political: as realised by Tony Heaton

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	Great Britain from a Wheelchair: Tony Heaton

My source:
Steps, Championing Disability Arts, Lancaster Alumni Magazine 2019, pp.17-18.
https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/alumni/


Image:
https://www.1418now.org.uk/commissions/does-it-matter/great-britain-from-wheelchair-tony-heaton/

The WEF Nexus: Water - Energy - Food

“Due to the flexibility of the nexus concept, its application in empirical studies has best served to expand, rather than direct, study scope. Insights tend to be high-level, while identified actionable management and policy proscriptions are not broadly applicable. We found no clear methodology uniting nexus studies, and a lack of improvement of resource management and governance outcomes.” p.5.

"The great breadth of the WEF nexus provides an intellectual home for an expansive array of research objectives, methods, and conclusions. This has produced some valuable scholarship but simultaneously limits overall insights and lessons that can be drawn from empirical nexus work. Our review identified some high-level insights and commonalities related to the definition of the WEF nexus (centring on linkages between WEF systems), the motivations for empirical nexus study, the importance of economics and governance in the nexus and nexus analyses, and the role of social and physical factors in constructing nexus interdependencies. Beyond these, however, the findings and specific technical and policy solutions proposed in the reviewed studies are difficult to synthesize as they lack coherence." p.14.

Galaitsi, S., Veysey, J. and Huber-Lee, A. (2018). Where is the added value? A review of the water-energy-food nexus literature. SEI working paper. Stockholm Environment Institute, Stockholm.

"In this light, the ‘nexus’ has gained significant interest as a potentially effective approach for considering the interdependencies between WEF security and climate change at various scales. Put simply, a nexus is defined as one or more connections linking two or more things. The term is widely used (e.g. the environment — development nexus, the population —migration nexus, etc.)." p.445-446.

"Analytical eclecticism* is characterised by the following: (i) a pragmatic ethos that targets the world of policy and practice; (ii) interest in wide-scoped problems (in contrast to narrowly defined theoretical dilemmas) that ‘incorporate more of the complexity and messiness of particular real-world situations’, and (iii) the aim of providing complex causal stories that account for multiple causal mechanisms predominantly explored in isolation within particular research traditions (Sil and Katzenstein 2010, 412). Notwithstanding the potential of transdisciplinary approaches and analytical eclecticism, some still argue that more research and criticaltheoretical engagement is required to advance the nexus (Harris and Lyon 2014)" p. 452.

Leck, H, Conway, D, Bradshaw, M, and Rees, J (2015), Tracing the Water–Energy–Food Nexus: Description, Theory and Practice. Geography Compass, 9, 445–460. doi: 10.1111/gec3.12222.

*My emphasis and with some reformatting '-' breaks.

 Hodges' model and reference to 'nexus'

With thanks to Stockholm Environment Institute

"Invisible Countries": What are you saying? More to the point what on Earth are you thinking...?

The book in the previous post that prompts this has its own content and creative rationale, but taking the title literally...

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So, you take your identity, country,  nationality for granted? You give scant regard for your citizenship when so many are stateless. Do you possess a passport? A national ID number of some sort?

There's no need for borders. But they do predict the struggles to follow over access to water, the position of dams. This is where we literally co-locate (with the political domain) the geo-political. You may have a point though:  "The first day or so we all pointed to our countries. The third or fourth day we were pointing to our continents. By the fifth day, we were aware of only one Earth." --Sultan bin Salman Al-Saud, astronaut

You also take your family heritage, possibly your 'good' family name for granted? Who do you think you are? Don't you realise you are history?

Are you a pacificist? That is what many will glean from such a stance. What's that? Oh, I see you are a citizen of the world? "The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?" --Pablo Casals Stop struggling. We are all victims of history.

See also: iWish 2059

Quotations: c/o http://www.worldbeyondborders.org/quotes.htm

iWish 2059 ....?

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	Invisible Countries

My source: Sylph Editions

Looking at Clouds from Two Domains ...

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"Humanitarian Applications"	2. "Estonia's entire government IT systems have been uploaded to the cloud and stored on international servers, so the country could be relocated at a moment's notice if needed."
"Good things can come from innovative tech"	1. "The Estonian government is nervous. ... British and American troops are located on the border, as part of a "trip-wire strategy" to get NATO mobilised. If the worst happens, the Estonian government has a rather ingenious contingency plan. ... A government in exile could relocate, boot up the cloud systems and serve the 1.3 million citizens as before."

Cloud for Business, Raconteur, Estonian Defence Plan. 12/03/17 #0439, p.5.

http://innar.com/personal_copy_Estonian_Government_Cloud_Kotka_Liiv_2015.PDF

Individual - Population: Identity - Sport #TeamRefugees

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	Team Refugees

Atlas of eHealth country profiles: The use of eHealth in support of universal health coveage

Dear All,

As we all know that eHealth plays a vital role in promoting universal health coverage in a variety of ways. For example, it helps provide services to remote populations and underserved communities through telehealth or mHealth. It facilitates the training of the health workforce through the use of eLearning, and makes education more widely accessible especially for those who are isolated. It enhances diagnosis and treatment by providing accurate and timely patient information through electronic health records. And through the strategic use of ICT, it improves the operations and financial efficiency of health care systems.

The third global survey on eHealth conducted by the WHO Global Observatory for eHealth (GOe) has a special focus -the use of eHealth in support of universal health coverage.

To read the Global Observatory for eHealth, World Health Organization, 2016
http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/204523/1/9789241565219_eng.pdf

Hope you find it interesting.

Ghassan Shahrour

HIFA profile: Ghassan Shahrour is Chair of the Syrian Medical Informatics Association (Syrmia). His professional interests include Health for All, Health Promotion, and Equity in Health. syrmia AT gmail.com

My source: HIFA  Healthcare Information For All: www.hifa2015.org

W2tQ: Wacky races - global health care and stereotypes

Since adding the clustermaps and flag counter I've been following the 'trends' of number of visitors. I'd hoped in summer 2009 I might in 6 months reach 500 daily readers of the feed for W2tQ. That total still eludes me. The flag counter is ongoing and 'scientific methods' aside it is interesting to reflect on progress there.

When I first thought of this post it was to be read to the tune and commentary of 'It's the Wacky Races!' This is not to cock a snoop at the participants, but the tongue-in-cheek nature of this post.

There are no surprises in the clear leader with the US way out in front. In terms of the target audience - everyone is very welcome as the message of this blog: is global. Within the flag counter there are some surprises. This may suggest the universality of English on the web and also the increasing effectiveness of translation tools. Or, people can see - and read - that there is a health, education and informatics currency in h2cm.

Here are the flag counter images from December 2009 (left) and January 2011 (right). In both the US, GB, Canada are out in front. India is right there as Germany puts on the gas. Despite being stuck in the sub 450 range with feedburner, it's great to see the global progress that W2tQ is making. I'm not sure what happened to the 'EU', it was there initially with '15'. It looks like they've punctured or something?

I wonder if to some extent there is the same stereotyping at work within the global health community as between the health and social care disciplines? Not just within some nations - but within local 'multidisciplinary teams'? How aware are we of what other disciplines do? How do they complement our role? How can we increase our combined impact?

Many of the developing countries are now represented as visitors to W2tQ. How well, from Lancashire, UK can I understand their daily ride? What problems are faced by health care workers in this range of nations? What resources do they have to call on - within and without their communities.

I hope this blog* can act as a springboard - not to a race, but to community building and collaboration. We all have much to learn from each other on our respective journeys. As you lean out of your car(e) window, I wonder what you see?

*Or more accurately the Drupal powered site that must follow!

Achieving the health-related MDGs. It takes a workforce!

Dear colleagues,

With reference to the upcoming MDG Summit and the UN Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health, Dr Manuel Dayrit would like to share with you the above-mentioned page that was published today on the HRH website, which highlights the human resources for health situation in the 49 focus countries.

Achieving the health-related MDGs. It takes a workforce!


Density of doctors, nurses and midwives in the 49 priority countries

Please note that the link to the chart is:
http://www.who.int/hrh/fig_density.pdf

Kind regards,

Rebecca Bailey on behalf of Dr Manuel Dayrit
Rebecca J. Bailey, MSPH, CEd
Technical Officer
Health Workforce Education and Production
WHO/HSS/HRH

My source:
Ellen BONITO: bonitoe at wpro.who.int
GANM (Global Alliance for Nursing and Midwifery): GANM at ibp.wa-research.ch

<->

In Mevagissey, Cornwall last month browsing in Hurley Books, I came across a copy of Maps and Diagrams: Their Compilation and Construction by F.J. Monkhouse, et al. (1967). At three pounds - a historical bargain. Prompted by the charts above I will scan the cover and share some of the text/ideas here in the near future.

I was saddened to see that in Padstow The Strand Bookshop has closed - apparently in January 2009. As a listed building who knows perhaps it might smell of books once again!