1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of International Development, Mental Health and Wellbeing
Foreword, Jeffrey Sachs, The New UN Health Agenda
I: The Imperative
Chapter 1
Shekhar Saxena and Laura Davidson,
The Global Mental Health Imperative and the Role of the World Health Organization within the UN 2030 Agenda
Chapter 2,
Larry Gostin and Laura Davidson,
The Rights to Mental Health and Development
II: Economic Perspectives
Chapter 3
Martin Knapp and Valentina Iemmi,
Meeting SDG3: The Role of Economics in Mental Health Policy
Chapter 4,
Judith Bass,
The Relationship between Mental Health and Poverty in LMICs
Chapter 5,
Chris Underhill, Victoria Ngo and Tam Nguyen,
Meeting SDG1 and SDG3: Addressing the Link Between Mental Health and Economic Development in Vietnam
Chapter 6,
Sean Kidd and Kwame McKenzie,
Social entrepreneurship and systems thinking about mental illness in LMICs
III: Demographic and Cultural Perspectives
Chapter 7,
Joseph D. Calabrese,
Understanding Traditional and Other Culture-Based Approaches to Mental Illness in Lower and Middle Income Contexts
Chapter 8,
Carol Vlassoff,
Addressing Mental Health from a Gender Perspective: Challenges and Opportunities in Meeting SDG3
Chapter 9,
Svend Aage Madsen,
Men’s Mental Health and Wellbeing: The Global challenge
Chapter 10,
Guglielmo Schinina and Karoline Popp,
The Mental Health and Well-being of Migrants in the Context of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda</ST
Biography
Laura Davidson is a London Barrister at No.5 Chambers and a noted authority on human rights, mental health, disability, and capacity matters. She has both an LLM. in international law and a PhD. from the University of Cambridge, and is a regular visiting academic Fellow at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Her academic study has included qualitative research on psychosocial disability and trauma in northern Uganda. Dr. Davidson is also an international development consultant, and in 2013 drafted Rwanda’s first mental health legislation. She provides expert advice and training to law firms, NGOs, and governments on all aspects of health care, human rights, justice, and the rule of law.
