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The Other NCDs: What’s being done about the global mental health crisis?
Mental illnesses receive far less attention and funding than other non-communicable diseases (NCDs) like diabetes, heart disease and cancer. Yet mental, neurological and substance-abuse disorders already constitute a larger share of the global disease burden than both cancer and heart disease. And major depressive disorder alone will be the number one cause of disability globally by 2030. How is the social sector responding to this crisis?
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Changing Our Priorities: When we don’t actually want what we ‘need’
More organizations are spending less time on the tired “it’s good for you, why don’t you understand?” approach to poverty alleviation. The age-old question – how might we deliver a product or service that people “need” and want? – is being answered in new and interesting ways.
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