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Revellers take part in the annual block party 'Loucura Suburbana' organized by the Nise da Silveira Mental Health Institute during pre-carnival festivities in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, February 16, 2023.

A Neglected Challenge of Mental Health

by Yenny Guzman-Ruiz

Latin American and Caribbean countries rank among the world’s happiest, but mental health remains an undiscussed issue

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Surrogate mothers (L-R) Daksha, 37, Renuka, 23, and Rajia, 39, pose for a photograph inside a temporary home for surrogates provided by Akanksha IVF centre in Anand town, south of of Ahmedabad, India.

How to Save Mothers

by Anoushka Arora, Vidhi Wadhwani, Siddhesh Zadey

Addressing perinatal depression can improve pregnant women’s mental health     

a woman poses in a bathtub in a pink room
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Global Progress on Mental Health

by Ketan Revankar

Ten years into the WHO Comprehensive Mental Health Action Plan

The story title comes from Shakespeare: " The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks / That flesh is heir to"—photo is of British actor Kenneth Branaugh holding a skull in the film Hamlet (1996). The photo shows the actor bathed in orange light and dressed in period garb holding a skull in a contemplative pose. GETTY IMAGES/Mondadori
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The Thousand and One Natural Shocks of COVID-19

by Kevin O’Rourke, Alize Ferrari

Assessing psychological impacts of coronavirus—the second in a two-part series on the mental health burden of COVID-19

[Image 16 x 9 = The prince of Denmark's anguish is apparent in this 1948 photo of Laurence Olivier (1907–1989) and Jean Simmons (1929–2010) as Hamlet and Ophelia in Olivier's filmed version of Shakespeare's play. Photo shows a distraught looking Olivier and a concerned Simmons on a sound stage in this production still. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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The Thousand Natural Shocks of COVID-19

by Kevin O’Rourke, Christopher Troeger, Alize Ferrari

Assessing the psychological impacts of coronavirus—first in a two-part series on COVID-19 and its mental health burden