1st Edition

Mental Health Policy in South Africa Exploring Problem Representation

110 Pages
by Routledge

110 Pages
by Routledge

This book investigates how mental health in South Africa is conceptualised and constructed in public policy. Critiquing embedded assumptions within existing policy documentation, the book advocates for policy solutions centred on poverty alleviation and economic development. Mental health in South Africa has historically been neglected within the health-care system, a stark reality underscored... Read more

1. Introduction

  

2. Ways of Understanding Mental Health

  

3. The Political Management of Mental Health Care in South Africa

  

4. What’s the Problem Represented to be in South African Mental Health Policy?

 

 5. Conclusion

 

 

Biography

Claire Morrison works as a fundraising officer at Camp Sizanani Life Skills, a non-profit organisation dedicated to empowering South Africa’s orphaned, vulnerable, and at-risk youth. She was educated at Stellenbosch University and the University of Cape Town.

Pieter Fourie teaches political science at Stellenbosch University. He has worked in the field of global health since the late 1990s, including at UNAIDS and at the AIDS Foundation of South Africa, and he has taught at universities in South Africa and Australia.

Ubanesia Adams teaches political science at Stellenbosch University. She was educated at Stellenbosch University and the University of Sussex. Her specialisation is in public policy analysis, with a particular focus on gender and health.