Infant Mental Health Research in Africa: a call for action for research in the next 10 years

BACKGROUND. Less than 3% of articles published in the peer reviewed literature include data from low- and middle-income countries – where 90% of the world's infants live. METHODS. In this paper, we discuss the context of infancy in Africa and the conditions of adversity obtaining in Africa. RES...

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Autores principales: Tomlinson, Mark, Morgan, Barak
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5269628/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28596855
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/gmh.2015.4
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description BACKGROUND. Less than 3% of articles published in the peer reviewed literature include data from low- and middle-income countries – where 90% of the world's infants live. METHODS. In this paper, we discuss the context of infancy in Africa and the conditions of adversity obtaining in Africa. RESULTS. We discuss the implications of poverty on parenting, and linked to this outline the impact of maternal depression on infant development. CONCLUSIONS. We outline three features of the field of infant mental health research in Africa, and issue a call for action about what we believe is needed in order to develop the field in the next decade.
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spelling pubmed-52696282017-06-08 Infant Mental Health Research in Africa: a call for action for research in the next 10 years Tomlinson, Mark Morgan, Barak Glob Ment Health (Camb) Review BACKGROUND. Less than 3% of articles published in the peer reviewed literature include data from low- and middle-income countries – where 90% of the world's infants live. METHODS. In this paper, we discuss the context of infancy in Africa and the conditions of adversity obtaining in Africa. RESULTS. We discuss the implications of poverty on parenting, and linked to this outline the impact of maternal depression on infant development. CONCLUSIONS. We outline three features of the field of infant mental health research in Africa, and issue a call for action about what we believe is needed in order to develop the field in the next decade. Cambridge University Press 2015-06-02 /pmc/articles/PMC5269628/ /pubmed/28596855 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/gmh.2015.4 Text en © The Author(s) 2015 This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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