{"id":270,"date":"2025-10-02T03:40:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/de-jong-joop\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T03:40:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:40:18","slug":"de-jong-joop","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/de-jong-joop\/","title":{"rendered":"De Jong Joop"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"content column wide left normal content view\" id=\"content\">\n<div class=\"rounded-corner\"><\/div>\n<article class=\"fader\">\n<header class=\"contents\">\n<h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJoop de Jong<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article\">\n<div class=\"author_addthis\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n    var addthis_config = {\n        ui_language = 'en'\n    }\n<\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"addthis sharing\">\n    <!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><\/p>\n<div class=\"addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style\" addthis:title=\"de Jong Joop\">\n    <a class=\"addthis_button_facebook_like\" fb:like:layout=\"button_count\"><\/a><br \/>\n    <a class=\"addthis_button_tweet\" tw:via=\"thebrokeronline\"><\/a><br \/>\n    <a class=\"addthis_button_pinterest_pinit\"><\/a><br \/>\n    <a class=\"addthis_counter addthis_pill_style\"><\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<p>    <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/js\/300\/addthis_widget.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n    <!-- AddThis Button END -->\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"addthis article_options\">\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"body contents\">\n<div class=\"object-left\">\n<div class=\"img border\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/var\/broker\/storage\/images\/authors\/de-jong-joop\/343676-1-eng-gb\/de-jong-joop_author.jpg\" alt=\"de Jong Joop\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOrganisation:<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tVU University<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<br class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">Joop de Jong is Professor of Cultural and International Psychiatry at VU University, Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine, Visiting Professor at Rhodes University, South Africa, and staff member of the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research. He worked for years in Africa as public mental health expert, psychiatrist and psychotherapist, and was the founder and director of the Transcultural Psychosocial Organization (TPO) until its merger with HealthNet in 2004. Over the past decades he developed novel approaches to global mental health by integrating insights from public mental health, anthropology and epidemiology in community interventions in a variety of cultures, combining interventions with research and emphasizing the relation between psychosocial factors and socio-economic construction in post-war settings.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"children\">\n<div class=\"article\">\n<section class=\"children related\">\n<div class=\"article\">\n<div class=\"wleft\">\n<div class=\"img\">\n<div class=\"overlay\"><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/blogs\/inequality-debate\/the-consequences-of-inequality-on-conflict-and-health\/\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/var\/broker\/storage\/images\/blogs\/inequality-debate\/the-consequences-of-inequality-on-conflict-and-health\/342833-2-eng-gb\/the-consequences-of-inequality-on-conflict-and-health_column.jpg\" alt=\"The consequences of inequality on conflict and health\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"wright\">\n<header>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/blogs\/inequality-debate\/the-consequences-of-inequality-on-conflict-and-health\/\">The consequences of inequality on conflict and health<\/a><\/h3>\n<h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/de-jong-joop\/\">Joop de Jong<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t|<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t26 February 2025<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h4>\n<\/header>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">\n\t\t\tA more integrative approach to understanding the myriad causes and consequences of inequality is needed, as well as more defined framework of which actors must be involved in tackling inequality.\n\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"icons\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/themes\/human-security\/\" title=\"Human Security\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/var\/broker\/storage\/images\/themes\/human-security\/88474-122-eng-gb\/human-security_tiny_icon.png\" alt=\"Human Security\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t<a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/blogs\/inequality-debate\/the-consequences-of-inequality-on-conflict-and-health\/\">read more<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"navigator\">\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n","protected":false,"raw":""},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joop de Jong Organisation: VU University Joop de Jong [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template_4.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-270","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - 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