Ebola interventions: listen to communities (2015) Read more
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Guidance for School-Based Psychosocial Programmes for Teachers, Parents and Children in Conflict and Postconflict Areas Read more
Tankink, M. (2004). Not talking about traumatic experiences: harmful or healing? Coping with war memories in southwest Uganda. Intervention, 2(1), 3-17. Although there has been peace in most parts of Uganda since 1986, in Mbarara district in southwest Uganda... Read more
The purpose of this research paper is to examine the usefulness of the social entrepreneurship (SE) framework in highlighting effective models of service development and practice in mental health equity. Read more
Active case finding (which includes contact tracing) ensures early identification and prompt isolation of potential cases of Ebola virus disease (EVD), leading to successful interruption of transmission in a community. Failure to identify and follow up all contacts could... Read more
How locals/communities are responding to the disease outbreak. NB: Includes thinking on children affected by Ebola and the communitie's proposed solutions which includes creating orphanages for children who have lost their parents. Read more
This paper is a brief account of seven years of project work in Sri Lanka that began as a Canadian university-led initiative in support of the Convention for the Rights of the Child. The work resulted in the formation... Read more
A community-based approach to address psychosocial problems was used, and the interventions were aimed to include: • Training community health workers in identification and intervention for psychosocial problems, thereby • Develop their knowledge and skills to use a variety... Read more
Background: Limited evidence about mental health finances in low and middle-income countries is a key challenge to mental health care policy initiatives. This study aimed to map mental health finances in Ghana, Uganda, India (Kerala state), Sri Lanka and... Read more
This `work in progress’ gives an overview of the conceptual background and preliminary field work findings of a research programme investigating the consequences of violence and conflict in villages in the Trincomalee and Batticaloa Districts of eastern Sri Lanka.... Read more
