Child and Adolescent Mental Health in Haiti: Developing Long-Term Mental Health Services After the 2010 Earthquake.
This article presents an overview of child and adolescent mental health in Haiti, emphasizing the role of structural violence and the factors shaping child protection. The 2010 Haiti earthquake is discussed as an acute on chronic event that highlighted the lack of pre-existing formal biomedical mental health services and worsened the impact of structural violence. Considerations for long-term, sustainable, culturally relevant child and adolescent mental health care in Haiti are also provided.
Dr. Mario Pagenel Fellow in Global Mental Health Service Delivery, Partners in Health, 888 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, USA; Program in Global Mental Health and Social Change, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, 641 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Electronic address: rlegha@pih.org.
Rupinder K
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Legha
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Children's National Medical Center, 111 Michigan Avenue, Northwest, Washington, DC 20010, USA.
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Solages
D000067576:Child Health / Q000592:standards*; D016241:Child of Impaired Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D004190:Disasters; D055866:Earthquakes; D006205:Haiti; D006801:Humans; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards
Child mental health; Child protection; Earthquake; Haiti; Structural violence