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Joanna Maselko
Researcher at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Publications - 87
Citations - 5765
Joanna Maselko is an academic researcher from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mental health & Psychological intervention. The author has an hindex of 25, co-authored 76 publications receiving 4921 citations. Previous affiliations of Joanna Maselko include Duke University & Harvard University.
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No health without mental health.
Martin Prince,Vikram Patel,Shekhar Saxena,Mario Maj,Joanna Maselko,Michael R. Phillips,Atif Rahman +6 more
TL;DR: Mental health affects progress towards the achievement of several Millennium Development Goals, such as promotion of gender equality and empowerment of women, reduction of child mortality, improvement of maternal health, and reversal of the spread of HIV/AIDS.
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Positive Emotion and Health: Going Beyond the Negative.
Laura Smart Richman,Laura D. Kubzansky,Joanna Maselko,Ichiro Kawachi,Peter W. Choo,Mark S. Bauer +5 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that positive emotion may play a protective role in the development of disease and across 3 disease outcomes, higher levels of hope were associated with a decreased likelihood of having or developing a disease.
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Gender differences in religious practices, spiritual experiences and health: results from the US General Social Survey.
TL;DR: Results suggest that weekly public religious activity was significantly associated with better health and well-being, and this relationship was stronger for men than women and was influenced by denominational affiliation.
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Optimism and Pessimism in the Context of Health: Bipolar Opposites or Separate Constructs?
TL;DR: The Life Orientation Test was examined to determine whether the two-factor structure is explained by method bias (due to measurement) or substantive differences, and optimism and pessimism emerged as distinct constructs due to substantive differences.
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The neglected 'm' in MCH programmes--why mental health of mothers is important for child nutrition.
TL;DR: It is proposed that promoting maternal mental health and treating maternal mental illness offer important new opportunities to tackle the twin scourges of maternal ill‐health and child undernutrition.