Citation

Kozelka EE, Jenkins JH, Carpenter-Song E. JMIR Ment. Health 2021; 8(8).

Copyright

(Copyright © 2021, JMIR Publications)

DOI

10.2196/28555

PMID

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Abstract

Digital health engenders the opportunity to create new effective mental health care models-from substance use recovery to suicide prevention. Anthropological methodologies offer a unique opportunity for the field of global mental health to examine and incorporate contextual mental health needs through attention to the lived experience of illness; engagement with communities; and knowledge of context, structures, and systems. Attending to these diverse mental health needs and conditions as well as the limitations of digital health will allow global mental health researchers, practitioners, and patients to collaboratively create new models for care in the service of equitable, accessible recovery. © Ellen Elizabeth Kozelka, Janis H Jenkins, Elizabeth Carpenter-Song. Originally published in JMIR Mental Health (https://mental.jmir.org), 16.08.2021. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in JMIR Mental Health, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on https://mental.jmir.org/, as well as this copyright and license information must be included.

Language: en

Keywords

adult; human; mental health; suicide; Review; Mental health; substance use; physician; mental health care; qualitative analysis; remission; personal experience; medical anthropology; Qualitative methods; health equity; Digital health; Health equity