Sudarshan R Kottai
Biographic Data
| ID | 219477 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sudarshan R Kottai |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sudarshan R |
| FAMILY NAME | Kottai |
| SIGNATURE | KOTTAI S R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2564-4879 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Mental Health Discourses on Descendants of Indian Indentured Labourers in Suriname
BACKGROUND: Recent research on the mental health of Indian descendants of indentured labourers in some of the host countries shows a rising trend in mental health morbidity, including death by suicide, sparking intergenerational memories and traumatic experiences of the infamous indentured labour system often described by scholars as nothing but "another form of slavery".' According to UNICEF, in 2024, Suriname had the sixth highest suicide rate …
“Initially, medicines will be given, and then we need to study the case”
In response to the global call to upscale mental health services in low--income countries, mental health non-governmental organisations (MHNGOs) have sprung up in Kerala to address mental health needs by partnering with pre-existing locally grown, bottom-up, community-led pain and palliative clinics (PPCs) to increase access to mental health care through task-shifting. The MHNGOs mandate filtering only patients with 'severe mental disorders' from…
Task-Shifting in Community Mental Health in Kerala
Based on an ethnography of community mental health programs run by two NGOs in Kerala which have associated themselves with preexisting, locally grown, community-based palliative clinics, this article explores how professional NGOs bring a new culture to volunteer-based programs. Professionalizing volunteers through task-shifting results in the transformation of their philosophy of community care, which constrains and narrows understandings of me…
Task-Shifting in Community Mental Health in Kerala
Based on an ethnography of community mental health programs run by two NGOs in Kerala which have associated themselves with preexisting, locally grown, community-based palliative clinics, this article explores how professional NGOs bring a new culture to volunteer-based programs. Professionalizing volunteers through task-shifting results in the transformation of their philosophy of community care, which constrains and narrows understandings of me…
Task-Shifting in Community Mental Health in Kerala
Based on an ethnography of community mental health programs run by two NGOs in Kerala which have associated themselves with preexisting, locally grown, community-based palliative clinics, this article explores how professional NGOs bring a new culture to volunteer-based programs. Professionalizing volunteers through task-shifting results in the transformation of their philosophy of community care, which constrains and narrows understandings of me…
“Initially, medicines will be given, and then we need to study the case”
In response to the global call to upscale mental health services in low--income countries, mental health non-governmental organisations (MHNGOs) have sprung up in Kerala to address mental health needs by partnering with pre-existing locally grown, bottom-up, community-led pain and palliative clinics (PPCs) to increase access to mental health care through task-shifting. The MHNGOs mandate filtering only patients with 'severe mental disorders' from…
Mental Health Discourses on Descendants of Indian Indentured Labourers in Suriname
BACKGROUND: Recent research on the mental health of Indian descendants of indentured labourers in some of the host countries shows a rising trend in mental health morbidity, including death by suicide, sparking intergenerational memories and traumatic experiences of the infamous indentured labour system often described by scholars as nothing but "another form of slavery".' According to UNICEF, in 2024, Suriname had the sixth highest suicide rate …
Mental health (3 works) · Health care (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Narrative (2 works) · Nursing (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychiatry (2 works) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (2 works) · Alliance (1 works)