All posts tagged health equity

Envisioning change: Learning from mental health advocacy and activism in LMICs

By Alma Ionescu, University College London (UCL)

Background

Activism and advocacy are commonly misrepresented in popular discourse, often simply equated with street protests and depicted as loud, disturbing and violent. However, there’s much more to it than that. Broadly speaking, it is any effort towards changing the status quo…

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Prisoner Health in Zambia: what does a systems-thinking approach reveal?

By Stephanie Topp (James Cook University)

In Zambia, as in sub-Saharan Africa, the prison population is predominantly male and experiences high rates of disease including HIV and tuberculosis.  Notwithstanding growing recognition of this problem, the issue of prison health has historically been given low priority by both Zambian and…

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