Inequitable and ineffective : exclusion of mental health from the post-2015 development agenda
| dc.contributor.author | Tsai, Alexander C. | en_ZA |
| dc.contributor.author | Tomlinson, Mark | en_ZA |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-08-31T09:11:26Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-08-31T09:11:26Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
| dc.description | CITATION: Tsai, A. C. & Tomlinson, M. 2015. Inequitable and ineffective : exclusion of mental health from the post-2015 development agenda. PLoS Medicine, 12(6):e1001846, doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001846. | |
| dc.description | The original publication is available at http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine | |
| dc.description.abstract | The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), adopted at the turn of the century, represented a milestone in global development by committing United Nations member states to eradicating extreme poverty and achieving specific targets over the subsequent decade and a half. At this time the world's attention is increasingly focused on the post-2015 development agenda, which will be unveiled in September of this year in the form of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Given that mental health and other non-communicable diseases were conspicuously omitted from the MDGs, and have only been weakly mentioned in draft SDG targets, in this essay we argue for a place for mental health on the post-2015 development agenda. Its continued exclusion will not only contribute to the failure of the SDGs given the centrality of mental health in most aspects of human development and well-being but also formalize our collective failure to care for the most vulnerable among us. | en_ZA |
| dc.description.version | Publisher's version | |
| dc.format.extent | 4 pages | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Tsai, A. C. & Tomlinson, M. 2015. Inequitable and ineffective : exclusion of mental health from the post-2015 development agenda. PLoS Medicine, 12(6):e1001846, doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001846 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1549-1676 (online) | |
| dc.identifier.other | doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001846 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/99519 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_ZA | en_ZA |
| dc.provenance | ZM201609 | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher | Public Library of Science | |
| dc.rights.holder | Authors retain copyright | |
| dc.subject | Mental health | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Sustainable Development Goals | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Poverty | en_ZA |
| dc.title | Inequitable and ineffective : exclusion of mental health from the post-2015 development agenda | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Article | en_ZA |