Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2024.; Background: For the first time, Nigeria has enacted a new mental health law that regulates the use of coercive measures in mental health care. Aim: The study aimed to investigate the extent to which the Nigerian public accepts the use of coercive measures in the treatment of people with mental health conditions and to understand the impact of stigma and other sociodem...
Funding Information: Financial support in the form of doctoral fellowships was provided to Ugn\u0117 Grigait\u0117 and B\u00E1rbara Pedrosa by the FCT \u2013 Funda\u00E7\u00E3o para a Ci\u00EAncia e a Tecnologia (UI/BD/151073/2021 and UI/BD/151072/2021). Interviews were organised with support from the Lithuanian Disability Forum, funded by the Department for the Affairs of Persons with Disabilities under the Mi...
Funding Information: The research reported in this publication was funded by the Gates Foundation. Publisher Copyright: © 2025 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an Open Access article under the CC BY 4.0 license; Background: Decades of steady improvements in life expectancy in Europe slowed down from around 2011, well before the COVID-19 pandemic, for reasons which remain disputed. We aimed to a...
Funding Information: This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors. The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. Publisher Copyright: © 2023 The Author(s); Regression analysis was carried out to examine the ass...
Funding Information: The study did not receive any specific funding. Deborah Oyine Aluh is a PhD student receiving the support of a PhD fellowship from “la Caixa” Foundation ( LCF/BQ/DI20/11780013 ). Barbara Pedrosa and Ugnė Grigaitė are PhD students receiving financial support from the FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia ( UI/BD/151073/2021 and UI/BD/151072/2021 ) Publisher Copyright: © 2024; Cultural...
Funding Information: Research reported in this publication was supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the UK Department of Health and Social Care, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, and the New Zealand Ministry of Health. The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics granted the researchers access to relevant data in accordance with licence number SLN2019-8-64, after subjecting data to processi...
Publisher Copyright: © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an Open Access article under the CC BY 4.0 license; Background: Regular, detailed reporting on population health by underlying cause of death is fundamental for public health decision making. Cause-specific estimates of mortality and the subsequent effects on life expectancy worldwide are valuable metrics to gauge progress in reducing...
Funding Information: Research reported in this publication was supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (OPP1152504); Queensland Department of Health, Australia; UK Department of Health and Social Care; the Norwegian Institute of Public Health; Bloomberg Philanthropies; the New Zealand Ministry of Health. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the offi...
Funding Information: This work was supported, in whole or in part, by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation OPP1152504 and by Bloomberg Philanthropies. Publisher Copyright: © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an Open Access article under the CC BY 4.0 license; Background: Future trends in disease burden and drivers of health are of great interest to policy makers and the public at large. This...
Background: The use of coercion in mental health care, while intended to benefit patients and improve their mental health, raises significant ethical and clinical concerns. It is a controversial practice that violates the rights of Persons with Mental Health Conditions (PMHCs) and goes against the recommendations of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD). Despite the o...