Citation

Bolton PA, Tang AM. Prehosp. Disaster Med. 2004; 19(1): 97-101.

Affiliation

Center for International Health and Development, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, USA. pbolton@bu.edu

Copyright

(Copyright © 2004, Cambridge University Press)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

15453166

Abstract

This paper describes a short, ethnographic study approach for understanding how people from non-Western cultures think about mental health and mental health problems, and the rationale for using such an approach in designing and implementing mental health interventions during and after disasters. It describes how the resulting data can contribute to interventions that are more acceptable to local people, and therefore, more effective and sustainable through improved community support.

Language: en