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Gendering psychosocial care: Risks and opportunities for global mental health

Chase, L.E.; Gurung, D.; Shrestha, P.; Rumba, S.

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D. Gurung

P. Shrestha

S. Rumba



Abstract

Recent conversations in The Lancet Psychiatry have highlighted the ways global mental health institutions reflect and reproduce wider social inequalities. 1 Gendered practices of employment and remuneration are an understudied dimension of this problem. The past decade has seen a proliferation of psychosocial interventions delivered by lay community workers, a predominantly female workforce. Under the right conditions, task shifting in this way can address geographical and socioeconomic inequities in access to care and support women's empowerment. Yet, such interventions also carry the risk of further entrenching gender inequalities when female community workers are viewed instrumentally as a source of more affordable clinical labour. As a group of women scholars and clinicians involved with psychosocial interventions in Nepal, we write to sound a note of caution amid the burgeoning enthusiasm for task shifting in global mental health.

Citation

Chase, L., Gurung, D., Shrestha, P., & Rumba, S. (2021). Gendering psychosocial care: Risks and opportunities for global mental health. The Lancet Psychiatry, 8(4), 267-269. https://doi.org/10.1016/s2215-0366%2820%2930483-1

Journal Article Type Article
Online Publication Date Dec 14, 2020
Publication Date 2021-04
Deposit Date Apr 26, 2021
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal The Lancet Psychiatry
Print ISSN 2215-0366
Electronic ISSN 2215-0374
Publisher Elsevier
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 8
Issue 4
Pages 267-269
DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/s2215-0366%2820%2930483-1

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