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Good Mental Health Care: What It Is, What It Is Not

WEBArthur Kleinman, a Fellow of the American Academy since 1992, is the Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University, and Professor of Medical …

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Introduction: How Mental Health Matters American …

WEBThe underpinnings of today’s mental health crisis include both social structural inequities and neurobiological vulnerabilities. The COVID-19 pandemic has compounded and …

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The Missing Piece: A Population Health Perspective to …

WEBThe solid boxes depict different potential interventions, each of which can be implemented at either the individual or population level. We argue that, where feasible, 1) population …

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Preface American Academy of Arts and Sciences

WEBArthur Kleinman, a Fellow of the American Academy since 1992, is the Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University, and Professor of Medical …

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Mental Health American Academy of Arts and Sciences

WEBWe are all vulnerable to emotional distress. COVID-19 made as much clear, subjecting many of us to the prolonged pain of isolation, loneliness, job and housing insecurity, and …

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Can Mental Health Care Become More Human by …

WEBOver the past two decades, advances in digital technologies have begun to transform three aspects of mental health care. The use of sensors and artificial intelligence (AI) have …

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Trust in Medicine, the Health System & Public Health

WEBRobert J. Blendon is the Richard L. Menschel Professor of Public Health and Professor of Health Policy and Political Analysis, Emeritus, at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of …

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Introduction American Academy of Arts and Sciences

WEBTwo hundred seventy-four million people—one in thirty people on the planet—are in humanitarian need as of September 2022.1 More than one hundred …

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Linda Rudolph American Academy of Arts and Sciences

WEBLinda Rudolph, MD, MPH, is a nationally recognized thought leader on the integration of health and health equity into climate policy. She serves as Senior Advisor on Climate, …

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Margaret A. Hamburg American Academy of Arts and …

WEBMargaret (Peggy) Hamburg, an internationally recognized leader in public health and medicine, is co-president of the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP), an …

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Patients Are Humans Too: The Emergence of Medical Humanities

WEBThis essay describes the origins, growth, and transformation of the medical humanities over the past six decades, drawing on the insights of ethicists, physicians, historians, …

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Victor J. Dzau American Academy of Arts and Sciences

WEBVictor J. Dzau is President of the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Medicine. In addition, he is Chancellor Emeritus for Health Affairs and James B. Duke …

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Rethinking Psychiatry: Solutions for a Sociogenic Crisis

WEBThis essay draws on Frantz Fanon’s insights about the sociogenesis of psychiatric disorders, and on the insights of feminist standpoint theory, to sketch a map toward …

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Public Health Approaches to Reducing Community Gun Violence

WEBSuccessful public health efforts are data-driven, focused on unhealthy or unsafe environments as well as risky behaviors, and often intentional about reforming systems …

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Rethinking the Humanitarian Health Response to Violent Conflict

WEBThe initiative consists of an ongoing engagement strategy involving domestic and international policy-makers, practitioners, and scholarly audiences, including …

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Mark A. Mitchell American Academy of Arts and Sciences

WEBMark A. Mitchell is a Senior Member of the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication Program on Climate and Health. He is also the Co-Chair of the …

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American Gun Violence & Mental Illness: Reducing Risk, Restoring …

WEBIntentional injuries claimed nearly two hundred lives every day in the United States in 2020, about two-thirds of them suicides, each a story of irretrievable human loss. This essay …

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Indigenous Historical Trauma: Alter-Native Explanations for Mental

WEBThe well-being of American Indian and other Indigenous communities has long been compromised by ruthless processes of European colonial dispossession and …

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Recent Dædalus Issues Explore Mental Health as well as Language

WEBMelancholy (1891) by Edward Munch. Oil on canvas, 72 cm × 98 cm. By Dædalus Editorial. We are all vulnerable to emotional distress. COVID-19 made as much clear, subjecting …

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