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Investigating global mental health: Contributions from political science
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This article outlines an agenda for political science engagement with global mental health. Other social sciences have tackled the topic, investigating such questions as the link between poverty and mental health disorders. Political science is noticeably absent from these explorations. This is striking because mental health disorders affect one billion people globally, governments spend only about 2% of their health budgets on these disorders, and most people lack access to treatment. With its focus on power, political science could deepen knowledge on vulnerabilities to mental illness and explain weak policy responses. By illustrating how various forms of power pertaining to governance, knowledge, and moral authority work through the concepts of issue framing, collective action, and institutions, the article shows that political science can deepen knowledge on this global health issue. Political science can analyse how incomplete knowledge leads to contentious framing, thus hobbling advocacy. It can explain why states shirk their obligations in mental health, and it can question how incentives drive mental health mobilisation. The discipline can uncover how power undergirds institutional responses to global mental health at the international, national, and community levels. Political science should collaborate with other social sciences in research networks to improve policy outcomes.
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Such a values-based framing aligns with the major role that politics has on youth mental healthcare resource allocation decisions, even if how this relationship works is perhaps inadequately understood.
“Such a values-based framing aligns with the major role that politics has on youth mental healthcare resource allocation decisions, 463 even if how this relationship works is perhaps inadequately understood. 464”
From The Lancet Psychiatry Commission on youth mental health (2024) · cites this paper as [464]
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McGorry, P. D., Mei, C., Dalal, N., Alvarez-Jimenez, M., Blakemore, S.-J., Browne, V., Dooley, B., Hickie, I. B., Jones, P. B., McDaid, D., et al. (2024) · The Lancet Psychiatry · doi:10.1016/s2215-0366(24)00163-9 · Cited by 663
Metadata
- Authors
- Patterson, A. S., Boadu, N. Y., Clark, M., Janes, C., Monteiro, N., Roberts, J. H., Shiffman, J., Thomas, D., & Wipfli, H.
- Affiliations
- Sewanee: The University of the South (US)
- Public Health Agency of Canada (CA)
- Tulane University (US)
- University of Waterloo (CA)
- Chestnut Hill College (US)
- WHO Collaborating Center for Knowledge Translation and Health Technology Assessment in Health Equity, Bruyère Research Institute, University of Ottawa, Canada
- Johns Hopkins University (US)
- Mental Health Program, Carter Center, Liberia
- University of Southern California (US)
- Corresponding author
- Patterson, Amy S.
- Venue
- Global Public Health
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2020-02-03
- Volume
- 15
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 805-817
- ISSN
- 1744-1692 (ISSN-L)
- 1744-1706
- OpenAlex
- W3005342475
- Cited by
- 15
- References
- 10
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 3 · 2020: 5
- FWCI
- 2.46
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Global Public Health (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Health, Medicine and Society
- Keywords
- global mental health, political science, mental health policy, issue framing, collective action, institutions, moral authority, state obligations, advocacy, research collaboration
- MeSH terms
- Health Policy, Humans, Mental Health, Politics, Poverty, Global Health
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