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  1. HDCA’s Health & Disability Thematic group’s Webinar on: “Recovery in Social Contexts: Applying the Capabilities Framework to Public Mental Health Research”

    …School of Medicine. In the Center, Dr. Alexander co-directs the Research Core and is an investigator of the projects “Operationalizing Capabilities Framework for Mental Health Services Research”, “Social Contexts of Parenting” and “Silent Wisdom”. She is a social psychologist whose research in the public mental health systems since 1980 has included research and policy collaborations with users of public sector mental health services aimed at und…

  2. HDCA Member Views on the Capability Approach

    …others. In market economies, this means looking at the “other side” of the market. Being able to feed one’s children depends on the pricing policies of supermarkets and on the range of products that they sell. If cheap cuts of meat are no longer available, then budgeting is much harder. An analysis of the market as a whole brings out the way in which the opportunities open to the poorest depend on the range of incomes in society as a whole. This n…

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