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Mistreatment of Women in Childbirth: Time for Action on This Important Dimension of Violence against Women
Rachel Jewkes, Loveday Penn-Kekana
Perspective | published 30 Jun 2015 | PLOS Medicine 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001849

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The Mistreatment of Women during Childbirth in Health Facilities Globally: A Mixed-Methods Systematic Review
Meghan A. Bohren, Joshua P. Vogel, Erin C. Hunter, Olha Lutsiv, Suprita K. Makh, João Paulo Souza, Carolina Aguiar, Fernando Saraiva Coneglian, Alex Luíz Araújo Diniz, Özge Tunçalp, Dena Javadi, Olufemi T. Oladapo, Rajat Khosla, Michelle J. Hindin, A. Metin Gülmezoglu
Research Article | published 30 Jun 2015 | PLOS Medicine 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001847

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Inequitable and Ineffective: Exclusion of Mental Health from the Post-2015 Development Agenda
Alexander C. Tsai, Mark Tomlinson
Editorial | published 30 Jun 2015 | PLOS Medicine 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001846
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), adopted at the turn of the century, represented a milestone in global development by committing United Nations member states to eradicating extreme poverty and achieving specific targets over the subsequent decade and a half. At this time the world’s attention is increasingly focused on the post-2015 development agenda, which will be unveiled in September of this year in the form of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Given that mental health and other non-communicable diseases were conspicuously omitted from the MDGs, and have only been weakly mentioned in draft SDG targets, in this essay we argue for a place for mental health on the post-2015 development agenda. Its continued exclusion will not only contribute to the failure of the SDGs given the centrality of mental health in most aspects of human development and well-being but also formalize our collective failure to care for the most vulnerable among us.