Dr. Stan Kutcher, professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Dalhousie University, talks about interventions that can improve mental health in developing countries, including "mental health by stealth" in the article "Global Health Must Include Mental Health".
""If we want mental health, we need healthy brains," according to Dr. Kutcher. Investing in mothers and their children from pregnancy through age three would improve brain development and decrease the prevalence of mental disorders, especially those that come from substance ingestion and malnutrition in protein and other key vitamins, he explains.
From there, mental health interventions focus primarily on three objectives: tackling the deeply entrenched stigma against mental illness; developing mental health literacy among the general population; and building capacity at the community level to diagnose and treat mental illness with accessible primary-care interventions."
""If we want mental health, we need healthy brains," according to Dr. Kutcher. Investing in mothers and their children from pregnancy through age three would improve brain development and decrease the prevalence of mental disorders, especially those that come from substance ingestion and malnutrition in protein and other key vitamins, he explains.
From there, mental health interventions focus primarily on three objectives: tackling the deeply entrenched stigma against mental illness; developing mental health literacy among the general population; and building capacity at the community level to diagnose and treat mental illness with accessible primary-care interventions."
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