Mental Health voices from Africa experiences and lessons learned
In June we will talk about mental health in African settings -you are welcome to join! No costs or other strings attached (except that most of it is in French – but with translation)
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Uncanny
Guest editorial for the newsletter of INTERNATIONAL HEALTH POLICIES The first anniversary of the C-thing has not gone unnoticed. Anniversaries provide moments to take stock, look back and think about what might come next. Last Spring, the early enthusiasm for transformational change was more tangible in the air than aerosols -but now, on our way …
Context and culture in global mental health
interesting editorial about the local silencing of culture and its impact on mental health policy in Brazil, and the epistemic alienation created by globally defined self-assessments tools in Chile. In this editorial for BMJ Global Mental Health, Cristian Montenegro and Francisco Ortega aim to “unsettle and expand the relatively circumscribed place given to culture and …
Culture and Happiness for 2021!
Dear all There is little to add to all the things said about 2020. Perhaps just to note that it did not go unnoticed. It was a year that we lived more consciously than ever. From day to day, from curfew to new Corona statistics, from lockdowns to travel restrictions, moving from one ‘bubble’ to …
C4C and final conference on ‘Participation Eritreans: taking cultural differences into account’
C4C participated in the final conference of COA (COA is short for Centraal Orgaan opvang asielzoekers, in English: the Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers – on the project “Participation Eritreans: taking cultural differences into account”. Willem van de Put presented on the ‘refugee experience’. Wonderful day – and beautiful drawings! On the page of …
Our C4C work published in Community Mental Health Journal
Supporting Migrant Women in Brussels to Regain Control over their Lives AbstractIn Brussels, many migrant women without legal status have no or limited access to health care and other basic services. Their access to descent care is mainly hampered by a lack of information, limited fnancial resources and poor experiences in the past. Three non-governmental …
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Ethics and Corona: whose values count?
The debate on Corona and the measures taken by governments is spinning out of control. We are concerned about how the increase of emotions – understandable as they are in the midst of this crisis – becomes a real barrier for the discussion that we really need right now. The question about how one values …