tailieunhanh - Women’s Mental Health: An Evidence Based Review

Demographic and epidemiological transitions and changes in lifestyle are leading to the emergence of cancer and other chronic diseases as public health problems in India. Cancer pattern in India reveals the predominance of tobacco related cancers, which are amenable to primary prevention. Cancer Registries in different parts of the country reveal that majority of cancer cases present in an advanced stage and makes treatment options prolonged and expensive. Therefore, the National Cancer Control Programme has placed its emphasis on prevention, early detection, enhancement of therapy facilities and provision of pain and palliative care. Comprehensive legislation on tobacco by the Government of India will help to control the. | WHO MSD MDP English Only Distr. General Women s Mental Health An Evidence Based Review World Health Organization Geneva WOMEN S MENTAL HEALTH AN EVIDENCE BASED REVIEW Mental Health Determinants and Populations Department of Mental Health and Substance Dependence World Health Organization Geneva 2000 1 Acknowledgements Meena Cabral Department of Mental Health and Substance Dependence World Health Organization and Jill Astbury Associate Professor and Deputy Director of the Key Centre for Women s Health in Society University of Melbourne Australia wish to thank warmly the reviewers who provided insightful comments for the improvement of this document. They include Dr Assia Brandrup-Lukanow Regional Adviser Women and Reproductive Health WHO Dr Herbert Friedman Consultant London UK Dr Claudia Garcia-Moreno Evidence and Information for Policy WHO Dr Michelle Funk Department of Mental Health and Substance Dependence WHO Ms Talat Jafri UNIFEM New York USA Ms Pirkko Lahti The Finnish Association for Mental Health Helsinki Finland Dr Lenore Manderson University of Melbourne Australia Ms Naana Otoo-Oyortey International Planned Parenthood Federation Dr Judith A. Oulton International Council of Nurses Geneva Switzerland Dr . Sundari Ravindran Consultant in Women s Health New Delhi India and Women s Health Bureau and Mental Health Promotion Unit Health Canada Ottawa Canada. Further copies of this document may be obtained from Mental Health Determinants and Populations Department of Mental Health and Substance Dependence World Health Organization 1211 Geneva 27 Switzerland World Health Organization 2000 This document is not a formal publication of the World Health Organization WHO and all rights are reserved by the Organization. The document may however be freely reviewed abstracted reproduced or translated in part or in whole but not for sale or for use in conjunction with commercial purposes. The views expressed in documents by named authors are solely the .