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Trauma, vulnerability and mental health problems in South Africa and Sweden

Globally, mental illness is more responsible for extreme distress than poverty or unemployment, and, to compound the problem, mental illness interacts with poverty and unemployment in socially and economically impactful ways that create reinforcing cycles.

Ulf Gerdtham Ulf Gerdtham

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Reviewing poverty as a human-nature disaster to achieve sustainable livelihood outcomes

Ending poverty has been the world’s priority for decades.

Antoinette Lombard Antoinette Lombard

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Negotiated resilience

Harris, Leila M., Eric K. Chu & Gina Ziervogel. 2018. Negotiated resilience, Resilience, 6:3, 196-214, DOI: 10.1080/21693293.2017.1353196

Leila Harris Leila Harris
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