Healing One Village at a Time is an article written by Rosenberg Tina in the New York Times on the 22nd of July 2012. This article talks about neuropsychiatric diseases such as depression and post-traumatic stress that affect elderly people in the low-income and low- middle-income countries.
According to Rosenberg, one may think the disease is the middle-class family, but rather is of people from troubled places; low-income families, those that experience violence through wars, high rate of crimes and people that go hungry or stressed for longer periods. In wealthy countries like America, access to mental health treatment between the rich and the poor is great, in Africa, there is none/ zero treatment. In the past there was no cure at all, be Africa or America. Now there are a lot of treatment going on in both wealthy and developing countries because of tasks shifting programs. Lay people are trained to do the duties of health professionals.
Rosenberg gave several examples. One example is Amadi, a depressed mother who lost five kids in 10 years and the people of her village in Ugandan, Africa. Through the use of interpersonal therapy the life of 94 percent of the large depressed people that had treatment changed after 6-8 …show more content…
The significant occurrence of depression also caught the attention of organizations to make a big investment in child health and the treatment of other diseases. That was because depression was prevented those programs from working as they could. Through this program lay people realized that adhering to treatment is essential and that people with mental health problems are less to adhere. Therefore the needs arise for tasks shifting programs to solve such
According to Rosenberg, one may think the disease is the middle-class family, but rather is of people from troubled places; low-income families, those that experience violence through wars, high rate of crimes and people that go hungry or stressed for longer periods. In wealthy countries like America, access to mental health treatment between the rich and the poor is great, in Africa, there is none/ zero treatment. In the past there was no cure at all, be Africa or America. Now there are a lot of treatment going on in both wealthy and developing countries because of tasks shifting programs. Lay people are trained to do the duties of health professionals.
Rosenberg gave several examples. One example is Amadi, a depressed mother who lost five kids in 10 years and the people of her village in Ugandan, Africa. Through the use of interpersonal therapy the life of 94 percent of the large depressed people that had treatment changed after 6-8 …show more content…
The significant occurrence of depression also caught the attention of organizations to make a big investment in child health and the treatment of other diseases. That was because depression was prevented those programs from working as they could. Through this program lay people realized that adhering to treatment is essential and that people with mental health problems are less to adhere. Therefore the needs arise for tasks shifting programs to solve such