Understanding the Roles of Faith-based Health-care Providers in Africa: Review of the Evidence with a Focus on Magnitude, Reach, Cost and Satisfaction
Understanding the Roles of Faith-based Health-care Providers in Africa: Review of the Evidence with a Focus on Magnitude, Reach, Cost and Satisfaction | Jill Olivier, Clarence Tsimpo, Regina Gemignani, Mari Shojo, Harold Coulombe, Frank Dimmock et al. | July 2015 | The Lancet | This article reviews a...
The Public Stigma of Mental Illness: What Do We Think; What Do We Know; What Can We Prove?
The Public Stigma of Mental Illness: What Do We Think; What Do We Know; What Can We Prove? In a 2015 article from the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, data became available to address the question: Do larger cultural contexts of stigma differ significantly? Preliminary findings suggest...
Faith and Health: Past and Present of Relations between Faith Communities and the World Health Organization
Faith and Health: Past and Present of Relations between Faith Communities and the World Health Organization | Reverend Canon Ted Karpf | 2014 | Christian Journal for Global Health | The author describes collaboration between the WHO and faith-based organizations in the implementation of primary health care, the...
Effectiveness of Social Skills Training for reduction of self-perceived Stigma in Leprosy
by Valsa Augustine of the Schieffelin Institute of Health Research and Leprosy Centre in Tamil Nadu, India; and Miriam Longmore of Somerville College, Oxford University, Oxford, England. To assess the effectiveness of social skills training in leprosy patients to raise self-esteem and reduce self-perceived stigma, five leprosy patients...