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World Health Organization, The World Health Report 2001, Mental Health: New Understanding, New Hope, p35. 7. The World Health Organization estimates that worldwide, about 10 per cent of pregnant women and 13 per cent of women who have just given birth experience a mental disorder, primarily depression. In developing countries this is even higher, i.e. 15.6 per cent during pregnancy and 19.8 per cent after childbirth. See: www.who.int/mental_health/ maternal-child/maternal_mental_health/en. 8. Enggist S, Møller L, Galea G and Udesen C (eds), Prisons and Health, World Health Organization, 2014, p91. 9. Ibid. 10. For example, between 76 to 85 per cent of people with severe mental disorders (in the community) in low-income and middle-income countries and 35 to 50 per cent in high-income countries have received no treatment. The 66th World Health Assembly, Comprehensive Mental Health Action Plan 2013–2020, Agenda item 13.3, WHA66.8, 27 May 2013, Annex, p5. 11. 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Trencˇ ín statement on prisons and mental health, adopted in Trencˇ ín, Slovakia on 18 October 2007, www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/99006/ E91402.pdf?ua=1. 16. Ibid. 17. World Health Organization and the International Association for Suicide Prevention, Preventing Suicide in Jails and Prisons, 2007, p1. 18. World Health Organization, Mental health, Reducing access to means of suicide, 2015, www.who.int/ mental_health/mhgap/evidence/suicide/q7/en/. 19. P owell C, Marzano L and Ciclitira K, ‘Mother–infant separations in prison. A systematic attachmentfocused policy review’, The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology, Vol 28, No 2, 2016, pp274–289. 20. S ee Samaritans’ website for more information: www.samaritans.org/your-community/our-workprisons/listener-scheme.  avanon N et al, Using Participatory Action Research 21. 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U  N General Assembly, 66th Session, Interim report of the Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, 5 August 2011, A/66/268. For example, as outlined in Shalev S, ‘Solitary Confinement as a Prison Health Issue’, in Enggist S, Møller L, Galea G and Udesen C (eds), Prisons and Health, World Health Organization, 2014, pp27–35. 28. P enal Reform International and the Association for the Prevention of Torture, Institutional culture in detention: A framework for preventive monitoring, 2nd edition, 2015, p4. 29. L ópez M, ‘How to build for success: prison design and infrastructure as a tool for rehabilitation’, PRI Blog, 24 July 2014, www.penalreform.org/blog/ build-success-prison-design-infrastructure-toolrehabilitation. 30. 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