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The Right to Mental Health in Yemen: A Distressed and Ignored Foundation for Peace
Mental health issues are all too common consequences of conflict and atrocity crimes, often causing upwards of one-quarter of the postconflict, post-atrocity population to suffer from physical and mental sequelae that linger long after weapons have been silenced. After more than six years of ongoing...
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2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8233030/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34194200 |
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author | Alhariri, Waleed Mcnally, Amanda Knuckey, Sarah |
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description | Mental health issues are all too common consequences of conflict and atrocity crimes, often causing upwards of one-quarter of the postconflict, post-atrocity population to suffer from physical and mental sequelae that linger long after weapons have been silenced. After more than six years of ongoing conflict, Yemen’s already weak health care system is on the brink of collapse, and population resilience has been severely stressed by indiscriminate attacks, airstrikes, torture, food insecurity, unemployment, cholera, and now the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper examines Yemen’s responsibilities regarding the right to mental health and details the few actions the government has taken to date toward fulfilling this right. It also presents the current status of mental health care in Yemen, discussing some of the barriers to accessing the available care, as well as alternative models of mental health support being used by the population. In light of the pandemic presently facing the world, the paper also discusses COVID-19’s impact on Yemen, detailing its further degrading effects on the country’s health care system and people’s mental health. Finally, the paper highlights the importance of addressing mental health in furtherance of the peace process. |
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spelling | pubmed-82330302021-06-29 The Right to Mental Health in Yemen: A Distressed and Ignored Foundation for Peace Alhariri, Waleed Mcnally, Amanda Knuckey, Sarah Health Hum Rights Research-Article Mental health issues are all too common consequences of conflict and atrocity crimes, often causing upwards of one-quarter of the postconflict, post-atrocity population to suffer from physical and mental sequelae that linger long after weapons have been silenced. After more than six years of ongoing conflict, Yemen’s already weak health care system is on the brink of collapse, and population resilience has been severely stressed by indiscriminate attacks, airstrikes, torture, food insecurity, unemployment, cholera, and now the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper examines Yemen’s responsibilities regarding the right to mental health and details the few actions the government has taken to date toward fulfilling this right. It also presents the current status of mental health care in Yemen, discussing some of the barriers to accessing the available care, as well as alternative models of mental health support being used by the population. In light of the pandemic presently facing the world, the paper also discusses COVID-19’s impact on Yemen, detailing its further degrading effects on the country’s health care system and people’s mental health. Finally, the paper highlights the importance of addressing mental health in furtherance of the peace process. Harvard University Press 2021-06 /pmc/articles/PMC8233030/ /pubmed/34194200 Text en Copyright © 2021 Alhariri, McNally, and Knuckey. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction. |
spellingShingle | Research-Article Alhariri, Waleed Mcnally, Amanda Knuckey, Sarah The Right to Mental Health in Yemen: A Distressed and Ignored Foundation for Peace |
title | The Right to Mental Health in Yemen: A Distressed and Ignored Foundation for Peace |
title_full | The Right to Mental Health in Yemen: A Distressed and Ignored Foundation for Peace |
title_fullStr | The Right to Mental Health in Yemen: A Distressed and Ignored Foundation for Peace |
title_full_unstemmed | The Right to Mental Health in Yemen: A Distressed and Ignored Foundation for Peace |
title_short | The Right to Mental Health in Yemen: A Distressed and Ignored Foundation for Peace |
title_sort | right to mental health in yemen: a distressed and ignored foundation for peace |
topic | Research-Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8233030/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34194200 |
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