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THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, MENTAL
HEALTH AND WELLBEING
Mental health has always been a low priority worldwide. Yet more than 650 million people
are estimated to meet diagnostic criteria for common mental disorders such as depression and
anxiety, with almost three-quarters of that burden in low- and middle-income countries.
Nowhere in the world does mental health enjoy parity with physical health. Notwithstanding
astonishing medical advancements in treatments for physical illnesses, mental disorder continues
to have a startlingly high mortality rate. However, despite its widespread neglect, there is now
an emerging international imperative to improve global mental health and wellbeing. The UN’s
current international development agenda finalised at the end of 2015 contains 17 Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs), including SDG3 which seeks to ensure healthy lives and promote
wellbeing for all at all ages. Although much broader in focus than the previous eight Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs), the need for worldwide improvement in mental health has finally
been recognised. This Handbook addresses the new UN agenda in the context of mental health
and sustainable development, examining its implications for national and international policy-
makers, decision-makers, researchers and funding agencies. Conceptual, evidence-based and
practical discussions crossing a range of disciplines are presented from the world’s leading mental
health experts. Together, they explore why a commitment to investing in mental health for the
fulfilment of SDG3 ought to be an absolute global priority.
Laura Davidson is a London Barrister at No.5 Chambers and a noted authority on human
rights, mental health, disability, and capacity matters. She has both an LLM. in international law
and a PhD. from the University of Cambridge, and is a regular visiting academic Fellow at the
University of Cape Town, South Africa. Her academic study has included qualitative research
on psychosocial disability and trauma in northern Uganda. Dr Davidson is also an international
development consultant, and in 2013 drafted Rwanda’s first mental health legislation. She
provides expert advice and training to law firms, NGOs, and governments on all aspects of health
care, human rights, justice, and the rule of law.
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THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK
OF INTERNATIONAL
DEVELOPMENT, MENTAL
HEALTH AND WELLBEING
Edited by Laura Davidson
First published 2019
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Title: The Routledge handbook of international development,
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legislation. | United Nations. General Assembly. Transforming our world:
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This book is dedicated to John Grace QC, with whom I co-founded Mental
Health Research UK in 2008 – the UK’s fi rst charity dedicated to funding
research into the causes of mental illness in order to develop better treatments
with fewer side-effects. Our joint vision was to make a long-term difference.
His kindness, loyalty, and good humour continue to be greatly missed.
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CONTENTS
List of figures and tables xi
List of contributors xii
Foreword: The New UN Health Agenda xvii
Jeffrey D. Sachs
PART I
The global imperative 1
1 The global mental health imperative and the role of the World Health
Organization within the UN 2030 Agenda 3
Shekhar Saxena and Laura Davidson
2 The rights to mental health and development 21
Lawrence O. Gostin and Laura Davidson
PART II
Economic perspectives 43
3 Meeting SDG3: The role of economics in mental health policy 45
Martin Knapp and Valentina Iemmi
4 The relationship between mental health and poverty in low- and
middle-income countries 58
Judith Bass
5 Mental health and economic development in Vietnam 69
Chris Underhill, Victoria K. Ngo, and Tam Nguyen
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Contents
6 Social entrepreneurship and systems thinking about mental
illness in low- and middle-income countries 81
Sean A. Kidd and Kwame McKenzie
PART III
Demographic and cultural perspectives 95
7 Understanding traditional and other culture-based approaches
to mental illness in lower- and middle-income contexts 97
Joseph D. Calabrese
8 Addressing mental health from a gender perspective: Challenges
and opportunities in meeting SDG3 109
Carol Vlassoff
9 Men’s mental health and wellbeing: The global challenge 128
Svend Aage Madsen
10 The mental health and wellbeing of migrants in the context of the 2030
Sustainable Development Agenda 138
Guglielmo Schininà and Karoline Popp
11 The Sustainable Development Goals and child and adolescent
mental health in low- and middle-income countries 152
Cornelius Ani and Olayinka Omigbodun
12 The global challenge of mental health and ageing, and scalable
innovations in mental health services for older adults 171
Stephen J. Bartels
PART IV
Policy 185
13 Strengthening government policy to achieve Target 3.4 of SDG3 187
Rachel Jenkins
14 Mental health, disability rights, and equal access to employment:
Global challenges in light of the Sustainable Development Goals 208
Aart Hendriks
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15 Prioritising rights-based mental health care in the 2030 Agenda 222
Dainius Pu¯ras and Julie Hannah
16 Natural and humanitarian disasters, and mental health: Lessons
from Haiti 235
Giuseppe Raviola
17 Paradigm shift: Treatment alternatives to psychiatric drugs,
with particular reference to low- and middle-income countries 251
Peter Lehmann
PART V
Legal perspectives 271
18 Mental disability, the European Convention on Human Rights and
Fundamental Rights and Freedoms, and the Sustainable
Development Goals 273
Peter Bartlett
19 The Sustainable Development Goals, psychosocial disability, and the
meaning of wellbeing in SDG3: Towards an approach that combines
the subjective and objective 291
David Bilchitz
20 International monitoring and enforcement mechanisms for human
rights violations in the global mental health context 305
Laura Davidson
21 The law as sword and shield: Realising the rights of those with
psychosocial disability through international, regional, and national
complaints systems 331
Laura Davidson
PART VI
Country perspectives 359
22 A case study: Colombia, conflict, and the peace process, from
a user-perspective 361
Salam A. Gómez
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