With the advent of the sustainable development goals, the field of global child health has
shifted its focus from reducing mortality to improving health, nutrition and development …

Life expectancy has increased by three decades since the mid-twentieth century. Parallel
healthspan expansion has however not followed, largely impeded by the pandemic of …

Mental health is critically important to everyone, everywhere. All over the world, mental
health needs are high but responses are insufficient and inadequate. The World mental …

Despite extensive investigations of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales-21 (DASS-21)
since its development in 1995, its factor structure and other psychometric properties still …

Numerous risk factors for mental disorders have been identified. However, we do not know
how many disorders we could prevent and to what extent by modifying these risk factors …

Background Although a very heterogeneous group, adopted persons may present
developmental and mental health problems of varying severity. Pre-placement adversity and …

An inverse care law persists in almost all low-income and middle-income countries, whereby
socially disadvantaged people receive less, and lower-quality, health care despite having …

Childhood adversity can have wide-ranging and long-lasting effects on later life. But what
are the mechanisms that are responsible for these effects? This article brings together the …

Lebanon is a middle-income country that has been recently crippled by several tragedies
including the economic collapse, COVID-19, and the fourth of August Beirut port explosion …

Disrupted operations of the reward circuit underlie major emotional disorders, including
depression, which commonly arise following early life stress/adversity (ELA). However, how …