Archive: Jun 2020

Volume 22/1, June 2020, pp 51 – 60 PDF Jenifer Wogen and Maria Teresa Restrepo Abstract The primary purpose of political, civil, socioeconomic, and cultural rights is to protect the dignity of all human beings. Good mental health and…

Volume 22/1, June 2020, pp 7 – 21 PDF Linda Steele, Ray Carr, Kate Swaffer, Lyn Phillipson, and Richard Fleming Abstract This paper responds to growing concerns in human rights practice and scholarship about the confinement of people…

Volume 22/1, June 2020, pp 221 – 236 PDF Mariana P. Socal, Joseph J. Amon, and João Biehl Abstract Over the past three decades, Brazil has developed a decentralized universal health system and achieved significant advances in key health…

Volume 22/1, June 2020, pp 105 – 120 PDF Peter Stastny, Anne M. Lovell, Julie Hannah, Daniel Goulart, Alberto Vasquez, Seana O’Callaghan, and Dainius Pūras Abstract         This paper proposes a…

Volume 22/1, June 2020, pp 21 – 34 PDF Petr Winkler, Lucie Kondrátová, Anna Kagstrom, Matěj Kučera, Tereza Palánová, Marie Salomonová, Petr Šturma, Zbyněk Roboch, and Melita Murko Abstract This study sought to evaluate the quality of…

Volume 22/1, June 2020, pp 145 – 150 PDF José Carlos Bouso and Constanza Sánchez-Avilés Introduction: Global mental health and traditional medicines The global mental health (GMH) movement aims to establish a world in which every human…

Volume 22/1, June 2020, pp 163 – 178 PDF Laura Davidson Abstract The practice of coercion on the basis of psychosocial disability is plainly discriminatory. This has resulted in a demand from the Committee on the Rights of Persons with…

Volume 22/1, June 2020, pp 237 – 250 PDF Sam Rowlands and Jeffrey Wale Abstract How might the abortion experience look in a world without the existing regulatory constraints? This paper critically assesses the evidence about how a…

Volume 22/1, June 2020, pp 91 – 104 PDF Ursula M. Read, Lionel Sakyi, and Wendy Abbey Abstract Much of the focus on human rights and mental health in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) has been on protection from coercion and…

Volume 22/1, June 2020, pp 1 – 6 PDF Audrey Chapman, Carmel Williams, Julie Hannah, and Dainius Pūras When we planned the special section of this issue and distributed our call for papers, we wanted to present a collection that would…