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Depression has been identified as a significant global health problem. However, to date, there has been little research into the most appropriate strategies to use in the prevention of depression. There is even less research about the understanding that people of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds have of the conditions encompassed by the term 'depression', (or more culturally and linguistically specific representations of unhappiness) and of the ways in which these conditions may be prevented.
The
Listening to Diverse Voices: multicultural mental health promotion research
project, a collaboration between Murdoch University and the East Metropolitan
Population Health Unit, funded by Healthway, investigated these issues
within a number of minority communities and in consultation with service
providers in Perth, Western Australia, during the period 2001-2004. The
objectives of the research were to identify cultural differences in understandings
and experiences of 'depression' and appropriate ways of dealing with such
issues. Research results will be available soon.
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