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Healthcare Reforms

Mental health: Defying common perceptions

Lack of accurate knowledge on mental health and strong cultural beliefs leads to the belief that mental health conditions have supernatural causes.
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Healthcare Reforms

Why Stammering Is A Mental Health Issue

Those of us who stammer find speaking a challenge and everyday social scenarios difficult to control. This affects our mental state.
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Food Security

Investing In Good Nutrition Benefits Mental Health

We need to promote policies and practices which actively support and encourage personal and community responsibility for health. 
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Transgender Health

LGBT People Need Safe Mental Health Care Services

These stories of pain are more a norm than an exception when it comes to LGBT people’s interaction with Malaysia’s mental health services. The reality is that our local mental health services are unsafe and poorly equipped to deal with the needs of LGBT people.
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Transgender Health

Policy For Action 2/2019 – What It Means To Suffer In Silence: Challenges...

The paper concludes with six main areas for recommendations on moving forward with LGBT-friendly mental health services.
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Non-Communicable Diseases

It’s Never Just About Cancer

We must stop blaming patients for defaulting their treatment or for not coming forward earlier for diagnosis.
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Healthcare Reforms

Policy Reforms Needed To Close Gaps In Mental Health

Most SOPs, emphasize on using physical, even brutal or harsh measures, of handling mentally ill people, such as the usage of straitjackets by the police.
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Healthcare Reforms

Improving Mental Health In Malaysia: Recommendations for Policymakers (No. 4,...

This policy brief highlights patient-centric opportunities to improve the response to mental health issues.
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Healthcare Reforms

Public Caning Is Traumatic And Detrimental To Mental Health

Public caning has long-term, devastating consequences to a person’s mental health and self-esteem.
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Non-Communicable Diseases

Public Health #7: Let’s Talk About Mental Health

We need to break the silence.
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Harshini Rajaperumal

Intern, Galen Centre

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