Will increasing access to mental health treatment close India's mental health gap?

Autor: Lesley Jo Weaver, Alison Karasz, Kiranmayee Muralidhar, Poornima Jaykrishna, Karl Krupp, Purnima Madhivanan

Publikováno v: SSM - Mental Health, Vol 3, Iss , Pp 100184- (2023)

Background: India's National Mental Health Survey (NMHS) reports a treatment gap for common mental disorders of over 85 percent, which they attribute to lack of awareness and access to psychiatric services in India. Interventions aiming to close that

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Zika virus in American Samoa: challenges to prevention in the context of health disparities and non-communicable disease

Autor: Michaela E. Howells, Christopher D. Lynn, Lesley Jo Weaver, Margaret Langford-Sesepesara, Joseph Tufa

Publikováno v: Annals of Human Biology, Vol 45, Iss 3, Pp 229-238 (2018)

Background: Zika virus (ZIKV) is linked to deleterious foetal and neonate outcomes. Maternal exposure to ZIKV through mosquitoes and sexual fluids creates a public health challenge for communities and policymakers, which is exacerbated by high levels

Externí odkaz: https://doaj.org/article/80e3a4e7b6b640f09f565385bdf7e2ea

The Laboratory of Scientific Racism: India and the Origins of Anthropology

Autor: Lesley Jo Weaver

Publikováno v: Annual Review of Anthropology. 51:67-83

Anthropology, especially biological anthropology, owes its origins to the scientific study of human racial differences. That dark history is well-acknowledged and, when it is taught, usually begins with the racism of early figures, such as Johann Fri

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https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-041320-024344

The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) Is Not an Improvement Over the DSM

Autor: Gerald J. Haeffel, Bertus F. Jeronimus, Aaron J. Fisher, Bonnie N. Kaiser, Lesley Jo Weaver, Ivan Vargas, Jason T. Goodson, Peter D. Soyster, Wei Lu

Publikováno v: Clin Psychol Sci
Clinical Psychological Science, 10(2), 285-290. SAGE Publications Inc.
Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, vol 10, iss 2

In their response to our article (both in this issue), DeYoung and colleagues did not sufficiently address three fundamental flaws with the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP). First, HiTOP was created using a simple-structure factor-ana

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https://hdl.handle.net/11370/ef879544-9ea7-4225-918f-145d814de2f9

Context Matters for Food Security: Multi-Sited Evidence of Shared Cultural Models of Food Consumption

Autor: Fasil Tessema, Lesley Jo Weaver, Bonnie N. Kaiser, F Tesema, Caroline Owens, Craig Hadley, T Kalk

Publikováno v: Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 61:162-181

Anthropologists have long emphasized the social significance of foods and the contexts in which they are consumed. Expanding on this idea, we define the context of consumption as the non-eating behaviors that surround eating, such as the manner of fo

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https://doi.org/10.1080/03670244.2021.1969927