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Public policy and mental health: What we can learn from the HIV movement

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  • Scheerer, David

    (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ))

  • Nimeh, Zina

    (UNU‐MERIT, Maastricht University)

  • Weinmann, Stefan

    (Universitäre Psychiatrische Kliniken (UPK), Basel, Switzerland)

Abstract

Mental health plays a key role in human development, both as a driver and as a goal in itself. Despite this, mental health has been strikingly neglected to date. The HIV movement has revolutionised health advocacy and registered remarkable successes in the past decades. The present study draws on the experience of this exceptional movement in order to find ways forward in the field of mental health. Adopting a broad analytical perspective, it discusses the differences and similarities between the fields of HIV and mental health and, based on this analysis, provides a concrete model for action that takes into account the peculiarities of mental health as a policy issue

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  • Scheerer, David & Nimeh, Zina & Weinmann, Stefan, 2016. "Public policy and mental health: What we can learn from the HIV movement," MERIT Working Papers 2016-022, United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT).
    • Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2016022
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    Keywords

    mental health; health; public policy; social mobilisation; social exclusion; poverty; HIV movement; AIDS; HIV; development; stigma; discrimination; social networks;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • I11 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Analysis of Health Care Markets
    • I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior
    • I14 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Inequality
    • I15 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Economic Development
    • I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
    • I30 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General
    • O10 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - General
    • O19 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - International Linkages to Development; Role of International Organizations
    • O20 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Development Planning and Policy - - - General

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