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Local suffering and the global discourse of mental health and human rights: An ethnographic study of responses to mental illness in rural Ghana

Overview of attention for article published in Globalization and Health, October 2009
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Title
Local suffering and the global discourse of mental health and human rights: An ethnographic study of responses to mental illness in rural Ghana
Published in
Globalization and Health, October 2009
DOI 10.1186/1744-8603-5-13
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Authors

Ursula M Read, Edward Adiibokah, Solomon Nyame

Abstract

The Global Movement for Mental Health has brought renewed attention to the neglect of people with mental illness within health policy worldwide. The maltreatment of the mentally ill in many low-income countries is widely reported within psychiatric hospitals, informal healing centres, and family homes. International agencies have called for the development of legislation and policy to address these abuses. However such initiatives exemplify a top-down approach to promoting human rights which historically has had limited impact at the level of those living with mental illness and their families.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 4 1%
Indonesia 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
South Africa 1 <1%
Sierra Leone 1 <1%
Nigeria 1 <1%
Greece 1 <1%
Unknown 298 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 53 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 51 17%
Student > Bachelor 42 14%
Researcher 30 10%
Student > Postgraduate 20 6%
Other 46 15%
Unknown 66 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 66 21%
Medicine and Dentistry 54 18%
Psychology 50 16%
Nursing and Health Professions 26 8%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 8 3%
Other 29 9%
Unknown 75 24%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 15. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 10 March 2015.
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#2,319,398
of 24,217,496 outputs
Outputs from Globalization and Health
#387
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#7,621
of 96,728 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Globalization and Health
#1
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