Good Governance Required In Mental Health Research

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Article Date: 25 Nov 2011 - 0:00 PST

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In this week's PLoS Medicine Taghi Yasamy from the WHO, Geneva, Switzerland and colleagues identify challenges facing good mental health research governance in low- and middle-income countries and provide suggestions for a way forward.

The authors recognize the need to establish the general orientation of mental health research to deal with problems such as organizational structure, research prioritization and relatively limited capacity and resources, and to balance expensive research with assessment of services and resources using low-cost methods.

The authors state: "Low resource countries face a range of challenges that leads to little or inappropriate research. They need to use their limited financial and human resources for mental health research as effectively as possible. They need sound governance of their mental health research to achieve this."

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Visit our mental health section for the latest news on this subject. Funding: No specific funding was received for this article.
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. MTY, MVO, and SS are WHO employees, they are responsible for the views expressed in this publication, and they do not necessarily represent the decisions, policy, or views of the World Health Organization.
Citation: Yasamy MT, Maulik PK, Tomlinson M, Lund C, Van Ommeren M, et al. (2011) Responsible Governance for Mental Health Research in Low Resource Countries. PLoS Med 8(11): e1001126. doi:10.1371/journal. pmed.1001126
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Developing Nations Need Good Governance In Mental Health Research

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Main Category: Mental Health
Article Date: 25 Nov 2011 - 7:00 PST

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Taghi Yasamy, from the World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland, and colleagues pointed out the difficulties good mental health research governance in low- and middle-income countries face in this week's PLoS Medicine.

In addition, Yasamy and colleagues offer suggestions on how good mental health research can move forward.

The team acknowledge the need to organize the general direction of mental health research in order to deal with issues, such as research prioritization, organizational structure, relatively limited capacity and resource, as well as to balance costly investigations with evaluation of resources and services using inexpensive techniques.

The researchers, explain:

"Low resource countries face a range of challenges that leads to little or inappropriate research.

They need to use their limited financial and human resources for mental health research as effectively as possible. They need sound governance of their mental health research to achieve this."

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Developing Nations Need Good Governance In Mental Health Research

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Main Category: Mental Health
Article Date: 25 Nov 2011 - 7:00 PST

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Taghi Yasamy, from the World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland, and colleagues pointed out the difficulties good mental health research governance in low- and middle-income countries face in this week's PLoS Medicine.

In addition, Yasamy and colleagues offer suggestions on how good mental health research can move forward.

The team acknowledge the need to organize the general direction of mental health research in order to deal with issues, such as research prioritization, organizational structure, relatively limited capacity and resource, as well as to balance costly investigations with evaluation of resources and services using inexpensive techniques.

The researchers, explain:

"Low resource countries face a range of challenges that leads to little or inappropriate research.

They need to use their limited financial and human resources for mental health research as effectively as possible. They need sound governance of their mental health research to achieve this."

Written by Grace Rattue
Copyright: Medical News Today
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Visit our mental health section for the latest news on this subject. ”Responsible Governance for Mental Health Research in Low Resource Countries.”
Yasamy MT, Maulik PK, Tomlinson M, Lund C, Van Ommeren M, et al. (2011)
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posted by Dalpay on 26 Nov 2011 at 6:45 am

Mental hygiene is situational to cultural expectations and even then the Caste or Class to which an individual belongs. With international migration of medical personnel, the professional opine may be called into question. Ethical conduct of a Polynesian can not be adequately assessed by an Eskimo. A Catholic can not usually comment on the motive for behavior of a Hindu. While developing nations may need to explore a new Malleus Maleficarum of social expectations, it is not required they participate in Inquisition. The legacy of Behavioral Science is footnoted with witch hunts combining honest research with personal patterns of belief.

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Good Governance Required In Mental Health Research

Main Category: Mental Health
Article Date: 25 Nov 2011 - 0:00 PST

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In this week's PLoS Medicine Taghi Yasamy from the WHO, Geneva, Switzerland and colleagues identify challenges facing good mental health research governance in low- and middle-income countries and provide suggestions for a way forward.

The authors recognize the need to establish the general orientation of mental health research to deal with problems such as organizational structure, research prioritization and relatively limited capacity and resources, and to balance expensive research with assessment of services and resources using low-cost methods.

The authors state: "Low resource countries face a range of challenges that leads to little or inappropriate research. They need to use their limited financial and human resources for mental health research as effectively as possible. They need sound governance of their mental health research to achieve this."

Article adapted by Medical News Today from original press release. Click 'references' tab above for source.
Visit our mental health section for the latest news on this subject. Funding: No specific funding was received for this article.
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. MTY, MVO, and SS are WHO employees, they are responsible for the views expressed in this publication, and they do not necessarily represent the decisions, policy, or views of the World Health Organization.
Citation: Yasamy MT, Maulik PK, Tomlinson M, Lund C, Van Ommeren M, et al. (2011) Responsible Governance for Mental Health Research in Low Resource Countries. PLoS Med 8(11): e1001126. doi:10.1371/journal. pmed.1001126
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Research With Worms May Shed Light on Women's Fertility

TUESDAY, Dec. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Different molecular mechanisms may regulate the aging of the human body and the aging of the reproductive system, new research with worms suggests.

The findings may help explain why a woman's fertility begins to decline after age 35 but other cells in her body don't show major signs of aging until decades later, study author Coleen Murphy of Princeton University said in a news release from the American Society for Cell Biology.

Murphy and her colleagues studied the roundworms, called C. elegans, to compare the types of genes that affect lifespan and the types that keep immature egg cells (oocytes) healthy.

The findings were scheduled for presentation Tuesday at the annual meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology, in Denver.

The researchers found that both body aging and reproductive aging in C. elegans involve the insulin regulation pathway, but there are marked differences in the molecular mechanisms that maintain youthful oocyte function and those that affect body ("somatic") aging.

"It seems that maintaining protein and cell quality is the most important component of somatic longevity in worms, while chromosomal/DNA integrity and cell cycle control are the most critical factors for oocyte health," Murphy said in a society news release.

She added that finding ways to delay oocyte aging could reduce older women's risk of giving birth to a child with birth defects.

Because this study was presented at a medical meeting, the data and conclusions should be viewed as preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal.

More information

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has more about infertility at WomensHealth.gov.