Reggie Fils-Aime Quotes About Mental Health

• Attitudes to mental health are slowly changing, there's less stigma among healthcare workers and a greater commitment to provide mental health treatment when doctors and nurses can see people do get better.

  Reggie Fils-Aime

  Attitude, Health, Commitment

• It was only after the earthquake that the health minister said mental health should be a priority and that the issue was talked about.

  Reggie Fils-Aime

  Health, Earthquakes, Issues

  "Voodou Priests And Doctors Are On The Frontline Of Haiti’s Mental Health Care" by Anastasia Moloney, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 14, 2015.

• The impact of the earthquake on mental health was huge and unimaginably deep in people's lives. Some lost all benchmarks and references because of their great loss, we still have people coming to clinics with mental health problems related to the earthquake. They talk about the earthquake, about being under the rubble.

  Reggie Fils-Aime

  Health, Loss, Impact

• The social and economic impact of the earthquake is still very present and is contributing to mental health problems, the mother who lost her husband, or children who lost their parents, and who now are responsible for the whole family, taking children to school and providing food. This transition is still causing stress and depression.

  Reggie Fils-Aime

  Mother, Children, Husband

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