In many African countries, mental health issues, including the burden of serious mental illness and trauma, have not been adequately addressed. These essays shed light on the treatment of common and chronic mental disorders, including mental illness and treatment in the current climate of economic and political instability, access to health care, access to medicines, and the impact of HIV-AIDS and other chronic illness on mental health. While problems are rampant and carry real and devastating consequences, this volume promotes an understanding of the African mental health landscape in service of reform.

In many African countries, mental health issues, including the burden of serious mental illness and trauma, have not been adequately addressed. These essays shed light on the treatment of common and chronic mental disorders, including mental illness and treatment in the current climate of economic and political instability, access to health care, access to medicines, and the impact of HIV-AIDS and other chronic illness on mental health. While problems are rampant and carry real and devastating consequences, this volume promotes an understanding of the African mental health landscape in service of reform.

Using life course analysis from the Young Lives study of 12,000 children growing up in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam over the past 15 years, this book draws on evidence on two cohorts of children, from 1 to 15 and from 8 to 22. It examines how poverty affects children's development in low and middle income countries, and how policy has been used to improve their lives, then goes on to show when key developmental differences occur. It uses new evidence to develop a framework of what matters most and when and outlines effective policy approaches to inform the no-one left behind Sustainable Development Goal agenda.

Based on the nursery rhyme of ten jumping monkeys, little ones will love counting backwards as they watch ten cute-looking zombies disappear one by one with each turn of the page in this delightful story and coloring book. Ten Silly Zombies Jumping On The Bed coloring book features black and white illustrations you can color, and catchy verses you'll be humming long after the book is over. As fun to read as it is to color, this enjoyable rhyming adventure is perfect for all ages.

Based on the nursery rhyme of ten jumping monkeys, little ones will love counting backwards as they watch ten cute-looking zombies disappear one by one with each turn of the page in this delightful story. Ten Silly Zombies Jumping On The Bed features full-color illustrations, and catchy verses that will have you humming them long after the book is over. As fun to read as it is to listen to, this enjoyable rhyming adventure is a perfect read for all ages.

Of course zombies may be frightening when first seen, but though there are many reasons not to like zombies, there are many more to love them. In fact, if you really think about it, zombies are actually pretty cool. So if you have become a zombie and are having a tough time dealing with it, then know that you are not alone. Read this book to find out all about the good zombies can do. Because though they can be terrifying, zombies can also be cool.

An entity from another dimension has taken over every man, woman and child, turning them into mindless zombies. Bobby Morgan doesn't know what is happening, but when his sister tries to kill him and his parents turn on him, he runs for his life, desperate to find the answer before he becomes the next victim. Besides Bobby, only Sheriff Dale Turner has been lucky enough to escape the town's evil grasp, and the two survivors soon find themselves caught between a battle of good versus evil, with the fate of the Earth resting in the balance. For if the Darklings reach the Earth, no one will be safe.

The spooky house at the end of the street was the one all the kids avoided. With its overgrown shrubs and weeds, the place was a modern day haunted house. Especially at night. So when Ricky sneaks into the yard to retrieve his favorite ball, he comes across something he'd only seen in movies and bad dreams. He sees a zombie in the basement window of the old house, but when he tells his friends, no one believes him. Ricky knows what he saw, that something lurks in the old house, something that isn't supposed to exist. With his best friend Eric by his side, Ricky will find out the truth and prove to everyone that zombies are real. And when the night is done, everyone will know about the zombie in the basement. Note: This book is for young adults and for those who are young at heart. Illustrated by Andrew Dawe-Collins

The detrimental impact of poverty on child development, educational outcomes, job prospects, health and behaviour is well known, and governments worldwide have committed themselves to eradicating child poverty as well as the intergenerational transmission of poverty. Yet more than 60% of South African children live in households with annual incomes below $1360 (2006 value) and mortality and maltreatment rates remain high. In order to realise the rights of all children and tackle child poverty, it is critical that robust measures are developed to quantify the nature and extent of social deprivation experienced by children at sub-national level and thereby accurately identify the areas of greatest need and the most deprived areas. It is also essential that these measures focus specifically on children; separating children out from household level data or data presented for the total population and foregrounding deprivation from a child perspective. This report is a first attempt to generate data of this nature, to map child deprivation at municipal level, in order to inform local level policy and intervention in South Africa. Making use of information available from the 2001 Census about different aspects of deprivation, such as income, employment, education, health and living environment, the authors have combined these domains to form an overall index of multiple deprivations. The model which emerges is of a series of uni-dimensional domains of deprivation which can be combined, with appropriate weighting, into a single child-focused measure of multiple deprivations. This title is a valuable resource for policymakers, NGOs, scholars and other stakeholders monitoring the situation of children in South Africa.