World Mental Health Day 2022

World Mental Health Day was observed for the first time on 10 October 1992. The day, officially commemorated every year on October 10th, aims to raise awareness in the global community about the critical mental health agendas – with a unifying voice through collaboration with various partners – to take action and to create lasting change. It was started as an annual activity of the World Federation for Mental Health by the then Deputy Secretary-General Richard Hunter. In 1994, at the suggestion of then Secretary-General Eugene Brody, a theme for the Day was used for the first time. It was “Improving the Quality of Mental Health Services throughout the World.” Within three years, the Day had become a valuable occasion for interested government departments, organization and committed individuals to arrange programs to focus on aspects of mental health care. World Mental Health Day celebrates awareness for the global community in an empathetic way, with a unifying voice, helping people feel hopeful by empowering them to take action and create lasting change. This year's theme is "Make mental health & well-being for all a global priority".

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Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Mental Health in Pandemics
A Computational Approach
2022, Pages 189-208

This research has some implications for the research community. First, an implication from our result is that there is an inverse relationship between change in mobility and COVID- 19 variables. Second, it can be observed that the implementation of stringent policy measures on different forms of mobility helped in reducing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic; however, with the increased stringency index, there was an adverse impact on people's mental health around the globe.
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Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Mental Health in Pandemics
A Computational Approach
2022, Pages 1-51

This chapter provides a systematic review of the current literature investigating COVID-19's impact on mental well-being, as well as studies that explore machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques to detect and treat mental illnesses when traditional therapies are unavailable due to lockdown and social distancing norms imposed.
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Cognitive and Behavioral Dysfunction in Schizophrenia
2021, Pages 155-166

The chapter reviews factors related to the development of depression as well as the role of treatment in ameliorating depressive symptoms in schizophrenia patients.
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Emotion Measurement (Second Edition)
2021, Pages 773-793

This chapter reviews the concept of happiness and how it is defined.
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Epigenetics of Stress and Stress Disorders
Volume 31 in Translational Epigenetics
2022, Pages 19-26

This chapter discusses the diagnosis of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) according to the DSM-5 including diagnosis, measurement and assessment.
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Foundations of Art Therapy
Theory and Applications
2022, Pages 335-377

The chapter provides different ways art therapy supports mental health and mental health recovery and concludes with information about art therapy for specific disorders and in different settings.
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Foundations of Sleep Health
2022, Pages 97-122

This chapter introduces a psychosocial approach to understand and address sleep health in the population and its behavioral underpinnings.
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Foundations of Sleep Health
2022, Pages 123-131

The chapter reviews how sleep, diet, and exercise have an affect on health and well-being.
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Foundations of Sleep Health
2022, Pages 199-237

This chapter identifies and summarizes the thrust of the evidence regarding sleep health disparities among mainly racial/ethnic minorities as well as summarize both determinants that are largely modifiable and health consequences of sleep health disparities using selective studies as key examples.
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Global Emergency of Mental Disorders
2021, Pages 57-67

This chapter reviews a global perspective of mental health and mental disorders.
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Mental Health in a Digital World
Global Mental Health in Practice
2022, Pages 191-206

The Internet continues to be a widely used resource to access mental health information. However, the overall low quality of online mental disorder information, with the possible exception of that for mood disorders, raises concerns that consumers may be receiving an incomplete or inaccurate picture of their disorder of interest or concern. Ongoing evaluations of website quality are needed to ensure that consumers are empowered with accurate and usable information for good health and well being.
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Mental Health in a Digital World
Global Mental Health in Practice
2022, Pages 109-143

Mental health problems are widely recognized as a major public health challenge worldwide. This highlights the need for effective tools for detecting mental health disorders in the population. Social media data is a promising source of information where people publish rich personal information that can be mined to extract valuable psychological information. However, social media data poses its own set of challenges, such as the specific terms and expressions used on different platforms, interactions between different users through likes and shares, and the need to disambiguate between statements about oneself and about third parties.
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Global Mental Health and Neuroethics, Volume , 16 January 2020

Mental health and human rights are both global concerns that have been shaped by two complementary discourses: the human rights of mental health patients, and mental health care as a human right. Both discourses have influenced the development of strategies to better understand and address—at a global scale—the mental health treatment gap.
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Global Mental Health and Neuroethics, Volume , 16 January 2020

This chapter provides an overview of some of the ethical issues raised by the emergence of global mental health as a distinct field as well as supporting calls for a more inclusive bioethics paradigm for considering health on a global scale.
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Handbook of Mental Health and Aging (Third Edition), April 2020, Pages 23-36

This book chapter advances SDG 3 and 10 by providing an overview of the mechanisms and factors likely to influence mental health and access to care of ethnic minority older adults.
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Handbook of Mental Health and Aging, Volume , 1 January 2020

This chapter explores the utility of various therapeutic modalities, including their method of delivery, in working with older adults, which can lead to better health and well-being for individuals.
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Loneliness in Older Adults
Effects, Prevention, and Treatment
2022, Pages 119-142

This chapter reviews loneliness from various view points including: immigrants, women, dependents, LGTBI
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Loneliness in Older Adults
Effects, Prevention, and Treatment
2022, Pages 143-165

This chapter takes research on loneliness in elderly and applies it to designing intervention programs to help prevent loneliness.
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Managing Treatment-Resistant Depression
Road to Novel Therapeutics
2022, Pages 205-219

This chapter briefly reviews the history of ketamine, explores proposed mechanisms of action, outlines data pertaining to efficacy and safety, and considers “real-world” usage and the challenges to implementation.
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Managing Treatment-Resistant Depression
Road to Novel Therapeutics
2022, Pages 1-12

This chapter clearly defines “treatment-resistant depression (TRD)” and “difficult-to-treat depression (DTD)" to help clinicians to understand how to treat patients with depression.
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Mental and Behavioral Health of Immigrants in the United States, June 2020, Pages 157-178

This book chapter advances SDG 3 and 10 by providing information on various culturally sensitive methods to assess and treat mental health conditions onset by factors contributing to the immigration process for adolescents, adults, and older adults.
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Mental Health in a Digital World
Global Mental Health in Practice
2022, Pages 395-433

The global population is becoming increasingly reliant on mobile technology, with 3.5 billion smartphone users globally in 2020 with the widespread adoption of smartphones and tablets in combination with increased internet access present unique opportunities for mobile health (mHealth) applications (apps) to be utilized as novel interventions for medical conditions. This chapter reviews the efficacy of mobile health apps evaluating the model, framework and review sites.
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Mental Health in a Digital World
Global Mental Health in Practice
2022, Pages 459-479

To date, much of the literature on the clinical effectiveness of digital mental health interventions has come from higher income settings, but there is less evidence from low-resource settings. Notwithstanding varied access and gaps in access or connectivity, especially in rural areas, digital technologies offer unparalleled opportunities for transforming the delivery and use of mental health interventions in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs).
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Practical Stress Management (Eighth Edition)
A Comprehensive Workbook
2022, Pages 23-48

This chapter covers both knowledge and awareness about managing stress, providing nine worksheets to help with stress management.
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Psychologist's Guide to Adolescents and Social Media
2022, Pages 35-40

This chapter introduces the psychological benefits of social media in managing one's emotional world, utilizing research to explore the benefits of expressive writing and being heard.
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The Handbook of Alcohol Use
Understandings from Synapse to Society
2021, Pages 81-106

The chapter provides an overview of the epidemiology, and the main etiological theories of co-occurring Alcohol Use Disorders (AUD) and Mental Health Disorders (MHD). It is hoped that this chapter can inform treatment and policies for this population.
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The Neuroscience of Depression
Genetics, Cell Biology, Neurology, Behaviour, and Diet
2021, Pages 405-414

This chapters provides a thorough examination, including demographic characteristics, sleep history, medical and psychiatric conditions, lifestyles, past experiences of self-help, and pharmaceutical interventions should contribute to efforts to identify any underlying causes of either anxiety, depression, or sleep disorders.
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The Science of Religion, Spirituality, and Existentialism
2020, Pages 273-285

This chapter focuses on the role of religiousness in meaning making following stressful life events which can help with global health and well-being.
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The Science of Religion, Spirituality, and Existentialism
2020, Pages 287-303

This chapter first provides an overview of theories and research linking the psychology of religion to positive psychology, which can lead to better health and well-being for individuals.
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Practical Stress Management (Eighth Edition)
A Comprehensive Workbook
2022, Pages 117-137

The chapter outlines worksheets for seven effective techniques to cope with anxiety: (1) rational emotive therapy essentially challenges or refutes self-talk that contributes to irrational thinking; (2) simplified kundalini yoga is based upon the principles of introspection regarding the degrees to which we worry; (3) gestalt emphasizes the unity of self-awareness, behavior, and experiences; (4) systematic desensitization that involves imagining or experiencing an anxiety-provoking scene while practicing relaxation; (5) cognitive behavioral therapy that emphasizes cognitive restructuring; (6) mindfulness that entails focusing on the present; and (7) optimism that requires focusing on the bright side of things. Important terms are defined along with five websites to explore.
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Translational Oncology, Volume 22, August 2022

This study identifies the psychological impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on cancer patients undergoing radiation therapy which shows the presence of a clinically significant anxiety in almost all of the sample analyzed, and which makes it necessary to treat patients in a multidisciplinary perspective that includes psychological support in the care plan.
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Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, Volume 89, August 2022

Systematic review of mental health consequences of traffic accidents - large study on a major phenomenon.
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Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, Volume 109, August 2022

Explicitly addresses mental health SDG. Explores and measures relationship between length of commute and mental health.
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IBRO Neuroscience Reports, Volume 12, June 2022

This review attempts to shed more light on the prevalence of depression in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), its pathophysiology, risk factors, diagnosis and the experimental models available to study depression within the sub-region. It also evaluates the contribution of the sub-region to the global research output of depression as well as bottlenecks associated with full exploitation of the sub region’s resources to manage the disorder.
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IBRO Neuroscience Reports, Volume 12, June 2022

Financial constraints usually hinder students, especially those in low-middle income countries (LMICs), from seeking mental health interventions. Hence, it is necessary to identify effective, affordable and sustainable counter-stress measures for college students in the LMICs context. This study examines the sustained effects of mindfulness practice on the psychological outcomes and brain activity of students.
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Public Health in Practice, Volume 3, June 2022

Content examines the health and wellbeing of healthcare assistants vs non-healthcare assistants during the COVID-19 pandemic. Ties with goal on educating all about mental health and working towards health and wellbeing for all.
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Journal of Transport and Health, Volume 25, June 2022

The article looks at the effects on mental health when accessibility was limited during COVID-19 containment policies.
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Public Health in Practice, Volume 3, June 2022

Focused on mental health of young people and how it was impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Links to good health and wellbeing for all.
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Clinical Breast Cancer, Volume 22, June 2022

This study explores the current status and problems of breast cancer treatment with schizophrenia, including advanced stage diagnosis. It finds that patients with schizophrenia with reduced ADL are less likely to receive chemotherapy or recommended cancer treatment, and as such it is highly recommended that they breast cancer screening so that they can be diagnosed early and treated adequately.
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International Journal of Intercultural Relations, Volume 88, May 2022

Refugees need a place where both their physical and mental security is assured. This study looks at how the UN HCR program to resettle refugees is helping.
Elsevier, Women's Studies International Forum, Volume 92, 1 May 2022
While there is much research on men's mental health and sport, there has been less focus on women's gendered experiences of mental health and sport. Sport is widely considered to improve or sustain mental health, but it can be a problematic space for women. Focusing on four in-depth interviews with two women from a case study of an Australian field hockey club, we examine how women negotiate and manage their mental health and recovery from trauma through sport participation.
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International Journal of Intercultural Relations, Volume 87, March 2022

Do immigrants suffer extra mental health problems? Is there a way to improve the mental health of first and second generation immigrants?
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Translational Oncology, Volume 16, February 2022

This article reviews the factors associated with and risk factors for depression in cancer patients.
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Clinical Imaging, Volume 82, February 2022

This study explores the imposter phenomenon in radiology and the associated negative mental health outcomes such as stress and depression.
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Clinical Breast Cancer, Volume 22, February 2022

This article explores whether aromatherapy plus music therapy improves pain intensity and anxiety scores in patients with breast cancer during perioperative periods.
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Cancer Treatment and Research Communications, Volume 32, January 2022

This cross-sectional study finds that younger age group (18–35 years) and female cancer patients appear to be more prone to distress and warrant more attention from health care staff and caretakers.
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Cancer Treatment and Research Communications, Volume 32, January 2022

This article focuses on the risk of psychological distress and the quality of life of the primary caregiver of patients with cancer and identifies steps that may be taken for supportive management.
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Translational Oncology, Volume 15, January 2022

This article analyzes the correlation between the mental stress and severe psychological impacts, specifically chronic stress, that patients with breast cancer experience and reviews the previous research on the correlation between chronic stress and the occurrence and development of breast cancer.
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IBRO Neuroscience Reports, Volume 11, December 2021

Depression is a serious mental and mood disorder with global health and economic burden. Nutrition through the application of necessary food classes or herbs as well as their phytochemicals, may go a long way to effectively manage depression. This nutritional strategy should be given more attention in research, assessment and treatment for those with depression and other mental illness in low income countries, especially in Africa.
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Public Health in Practice, Volume 2, November 2021

Looks at the mental health of the Black community in the USA in response to police brutality. Ties to reduced inequalities, peace and justice, good health and wellbeing for all.
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Public Health in Practice, Volume 2, November 2021

In Nigeria, the disparity between available healthcare services and need for mental health services is palpable. Although, the country has made significant advances on challenging public health problems, health-related policy development and legislation in trying to achieve health for all policy, there have been challenges with regards to mental health services including that of policy development and legislation, financing, research, training and integration of mental health care into primary health care.

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Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health, Volume 11, 1 July 2021

Background: The effectivity role of community mental health worker (CMHWs) has several important gaps in the service provision at the community level. This study aimed to explain community mental health workers' effectivity role for the rehabilitation of mental health illness. Methods: A systematic review searched five electronic databases (Scopus, PubMed, ScienceDirect, CINAHL, and ProQuest) for previous studies published between 2015 and 2020. The Centre for Review and Dissemination and the Joanna Briggs Institute Guideline used to assess quality and Prisma checklist guided this review.

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Current Research in Physiology, Volume 4, January 2021

Laughter therapy is a universal non-pharmacologic approach to reduce stress and anxiety. Laughter therapy can be used during COVID-19 pandemic as a useful supplementary therapy to reduce the mental health burden.
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Clinical Imaging, Volume 68, December 2020

Based on the responses of a nationwide survey, this article explores the significant impact that COVID 19 has had on radiologists across the nation and, in the context of SDG 3, the impact on their mental health.
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Clinical Breast Cancer, Volume 20, October 2020

This study aimed to analyze the psychological status in patients with breast cancer (BS) during the COVID-19 outbreak and observed high rates of anxiety, depression, distress, and insomnia. Special attention should be paid to the psychological status of patients with BC, especially those with poor general condition, treatment discontinuation, aggressive molecular subtypes, and metastatic BC.
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Mental Health and Physical Activity, Volume 18, March 2020

How physical activity improves mental health.
Elsevier, Behaviour Research and Therapy, Volume 44, January 2006
The present article presents and reviews the model of psychopathology and treatment underlying Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). ACT is unusual in that it is linked to a comprehensive active basic research program on the nature of human language and cognition (Relational Frame Theory), echoing back to an earlier era of behavior therapy in which clinical treatments were consciously based on basic behavioral principles.
Elsevier, The Lancet Regional Health - Europe, Volume 19, August 2022
An Article on readmission to depressive symptoms among people who are refugees, in the context of SDGs 3 and 10, focusing specifically on the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of care practices for this population in Germany.
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The Lancet Planetary Health, Volume 6, July 2022

A Personal View in support of SDGs 3 and 13, summarising the current evidence on climate change and mental health, and outlining opportunities for methodological improvement and innovation in this research field.
Elsevier, The Lancet Regional Health - Europe, Volume 18, July 2022
An Article on stress-related disorders, in the context of SDG 3, focusing specifically on the association betweent these disorders and mortality.
Elsevier, The Lancet Regional Health - Europe, Volume 18, July 2022
An Article on depression among middle-aged and older people, in the context of SDG 3, focusing specifically on a machine learning approach to predictors of depression.
Elsevier, eClinicalMedicine, Volume 48, June 2022
A Review on the experiences of supporting individuals of young people who self-harm, in the context of SDG 3, calling for health-care services to address these individuals' needs and implement evidence-based interventions to offer a holistic approach to self-harm care.
Elsevier, The Lancet Public Health, Volume 7, June 2022
An Article on the prevalence of dual mental health disorders in prison populations, in the context of SDG 3, focusing specifically on the association of comorbid mental illnesses and substance use disorders with adverse outcomes.
Elsevier, The Lancet Public Health, Volume 7, June 2022
An Article on mental health and wellbeing among working-age adults, in the context of SDGs 3, 8, and 10, focusing specifically on the effects of changes in income on mental health, especially for people in poverty or in LMICs.
Elsevier, eClinicalMedicine, Volume 47, May 2022
An Article on suicide risk among individuals from minority ethnic backgrounds, in the context of SDG 3, highlighting the heterogeneity in risk among minority ethnic groups and the need to change the practice of homogenously grouping individuals together in research and the public discourse.
Elsevier, eBioMedicine, Volume 79, May 2022
Background: Childhood traumatic events are risk factors for psychopathology, but large-scale studies of how childhood traumatic events relate to mental health and cognition in adulthood, and how the brain is involved, are needed. Methods: The associations between childhood traumatic events (such as abuse and neglect, and defined by the ‘Childhood Trauma’ questions in the UK Biobank database) and brain functional connectivity, mental health problems, and cognitive performance were investigated by a univariate correlation analysis with 19,535 participants aged 45–79 from the UK Biobank dataset.
Elsevier, The Lancet Digital Health, Volume 4, May 2022
An Article on mental health morbidities in family carers of individuals with psychosis, in the context of SDG 3, focusing specifically on online psychoeducation.
Elsevier, The Lancet Regional Health - Europe, Volume 16, May 2022
An Article on the burden of mental disorders among young people, in the context of SDG 3, focusing specifically on substance use disorders and self-harm in Europe.
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The Lancet Planetary Health, Volume 6, March 2022

A review in support of SDGs 3 and 13, highlighting the need to link population-based mental health outcome databases to weather data for causal inference, and for greater collaborations between mental health providers and data scientists to guide the formation of clinically relevant research questions on climate change.
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The Lancet Planetary Health, Volume 5, December 2021

An Article in support of SDGs 3 and 13, highlighting widespread climate anxiety and dissatisfaction with government responses to climate change among chidren globally, with government inaction on climate change described as a human rights failure that could have considerable, long-lasting, and incremental negative implications for the mental health of children and young people.
Elsevier, The Lancet Regional Health - Europe, Volume 11, December 2021
BACKGROUND: People with mental disorders and intellectual disabilities experience excess mortality compared with the general population. The impact of COVID-19 on exacerbating this, and in widening ethnic inequalities, is unclear.
Elsevier, The Lancet Public Health, Volume 6, December 2021
A Review on the mental health of transgender and gender non-conforming people in China, in the context of SDGs 3 and 5, focusing on the specific actions needed to improve mental health in this population by reducing discrimination and fostering social awareness and acceptance.
Elsevier, The Lancet, Volume 398, 6 November 2021
An Article on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global prevalence of depressive and anxiety disorders in 2020, in the context of SDG 3, highlighting the need for mitigation strategies to promote mental wellbeing and target determinants of poor mental health.
Elsevier, The Lancet Digital Health, Volume 3, June 2021
A Comment on mental health data, in the context of SDG 3, focusing specifically on sharing of data between data custodians and researchers in the UK.