The pandemic’s traumas and isolation spurred a mental health crisis among children — and an unprecedented reckoning about the role schools can and should play in tending to the mental…
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Click here for more.“If you want to reduce maternal mortality, you’ve got to think about perinatal depression. If you want to increase child survival, you’ve got to think about maternal mental health. If…
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Click here for more.From its inception, PATH has always aimed to be a different kind of global health organization. Founded in 1977 by three researchers, PATH works to advance health equity, not only…
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Click here for more.We all feel the stress of the times in which we live in. But for people living in situations of economic insecurity, conflict, natural disasters, food insecurity, political instability, or…
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Click here for more.What if one of the answers to reducing inequality and addressing mental health concerns among young children is as simple as providing more opportunities to play? A growing body of…
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Click here for more.The idea of grizzly bears prowling sidewalks in Chicago may not appeal to the average citizen (or indeed the animals themselves). However, recent years have seen numerous projects seeking to…
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After only a few months of lockdown, back during the first pandemic summer, Abrar Mechmechia was already worrying about Covid-19’s long-term impact on mental health: the effects of isolation on…
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When Charlie, a 10-year-old boy, came in for his first visit, he didn’t look at me or my colleague. Angry and crying, he insisted to us that he was cisgender…
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One in three new mothers during early COVID-19 screened positive for postpartum depression, a new study shows. That’s nearly triple pre-pandemic levels. The researchers also found 1 in 5 had…
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In early 2021, emergency room visits in the U.S. for suicide attempts increased a staggering 51% for adolescent girls over the same period in 2019. Even before the pandemic, mental…
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Click here for more.After the Mental Health Act 846 passed in 2012, Ghana Health Service (GHS) shifted its mental health programming from facility-based to a more integrated community-based approach. GHS set up new structures, with…
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Click here for more.States attempting to address worsening mental health problems among students have hit upon a novel remedy: allowing them to take time off from school. The idea, which started catching on…