Unit 4:  Cultural Issues as Related to Clients with Behavioral Health Issues

Module 3: Behavioral Health

In this section, the student will:

Resources

“Culture as a Social Determinant of Health”; from ‘Leveraging Culture to Address Health Inequalities: Examples from Native Communities: Workshop Summary’. Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US); Dec 19 2013.
- Link http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK201298/

Social Determinants, Social Inequities, and Common Mental Disorders; from the World Health Organization and Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Geneva, World Health Organization, 2014). ISBN 978 92 4 150680 9
- Link http://www.who.int/mental_health/publications/gulbenkian_paper_social_determinants_of_mental_health/en/

Access to Care; from the Johns Hopkins Center to Eliminate Cardiovascular Health Disparities
- Link http://www.jhsph.edu/research/centers-and-institutes/johns-hopkins-center-to-eliminate-cardiovascular-health-disparities/about/influences_on_health/access_to_care.html
“Mental Health, Poverty and Debt”; Jenkins, R., Baingana, F., Ahmad, R., McDaid, D., & Atun, R. (2011). Social, economic, human rights and political challenges to global mental health. Mental Health in Family Medicine, 8(2), 87–96.
- Link http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3178190/
“Culture Counts: The Influence of Culture and Society on Mental Health“; Chapter 2 of “Mental Health: Culture, Race, and Ethnicity: A Supplement to Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General” August 2001.
- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK44249/

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