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Autor:
David Skuse
Publikováno v:
International Psychiatry
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1990/91, there have been major changes in the political landscape of the former Soviet states. These have been mirrored in less publicised reforms of the way in which healthcare has been delivered. Here we fo
Publikováno v:
International Psychiatry
Services for people with intellectual disabilities, in the UK as elsewhere, have changed dramatically over the last 30 years; deinstitutionalisation has probably been the largest experiment in social policy in our time. The vast majority of people wi
Autor:
David Skuse
Publikováno v:
International Psychiatry
The chronic trauma endured by the people of Iraq, Darfur and Zimbabwe is a subject regularly brought to our attention in the UK by the news media. The mental health risk attributable to living in a situation in which each day brings the threat of mor
Autor:
David Skuse
Publikováno v:
International Psychiatry
Over the past 20 years the number of children recruited into armed conflict, as combatants, spies, labourers and sex slaves, has increased substantially (Wessells, 2009). In this issue, we focus on the research that has been done in recent years to i
Autor:
David, Skuse
Publikováno v:
International Psychiatry
How we judge in what way, with what potential side-effects, our patients respond to medications designed to help them recover from their psychiatric disorders is informed by experience, scientific knowledge and guesswork. The rapid movement of popula
Autor:
David Skuse
Publikováno v:
International Psychiatry
With the extraordinarily large movements of populations from some of the former Soviet Union states into Western Europe, since their recent membership of the European Union, attention has been focused in recent years on how easy or otherwise it has b
Autor:
David Skuse
Publikováno v:
International Psychiatry
Services for people with intellectual disabilities are not necessarily a high priority even in the high-income countries. We look in this issue at the way in which approaches to support are provided in three contrasting regions, with different cultur
Autor:
David Skuse
Publikováno v:
International Psychiatry
As the median age of populations around the world increases, due to the provision of better diets and better medical care, the number of elderly persons vulnerable to mental illness will inevitably increase too. We are not good at providing high-qual
Autor:
David Skuse
Publikováno v:
International Psychiatry
Despite the emphasis placed, in international comparisons of obstetric management, on the perinatal mortality rate as a measure of excellence of care (or otherwise), there has been relatively little discussion of the impact of birth on maternal menta
Autor:
David Skuse
Publikováno v:
International Psychiatry