Pub Date : 2025-12-01DOI: 10.1016/j.lansea.2025.100652
Yilin Jiang , Narina A. Samah , Heng Zhou
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Pub Date : 2025-11-22DOI: 10.1016/j.lansea.2025.100698
Seema Mehrotra , Lakshmi Vijayakumar
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Changing food retail environment in Southeast Asia has been linked with nutrition transition. While policy on food retail tends to focus on economic considerations, little is known about how nutrition considerations are integrated. This paper examines the landscape of policies addressing food retail and health in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand to inform global nutrition targets. Food retail policy landscapes in the study countries were thematically analyzed using Walt & Gilson's Policy Analysis Triangle framework. The analysis revealed that food retail policies were predominantly shaped by health, economic development, and politics, with nutrition maintaining low salience and being subsumed within food safety considerations. The study countries represented a complex food policy landscape requiring inter-sectoral collaboration and multi-level governance, yet formal monitoring mechanisms and evidence remained limited. This study recommends developing a comprehensive regional-level roadmap to support healthy food retail initiatives. By aligning nutrition priorities with existing economic and health governance systems, countries can better implement nutrition-sensitive retail policies.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.lansea.2025.100690
Adrian P. Mundt , S.M. Yasir Arafat , Chencho Dorji , Avinash Desousa , Rakesh K. Chadda , Guru S. Gowda , Cristian Orus , Muralidharan Kesavan , Athifa Ibrahim , Nagendra P. Luitel , Harischandra Gambheera , Phunnapa Kittirattanapaiboon , Stefan Priebe , Enzo Rozas-Serri
Background
This study aimed to assess indicators of psychiatric institutionalization and their changes over time across the Southeast Asia Region (SEAR).
Methods
We collected numbers of psychiatric beds, specialized forensic psychiatric beds, beds in residential facilities for people living with chronic mental illness and prison populations in the 11 SEAR member states between 1990 and 2024 using primary and secondary data sources. We calculated median rates per 100,000 population, as well as percent changes of the median rates between the first and last available data points. We also compared findings in SEAR with OECD countries.
Findings
Psychiatric bed numbers and prison population were available from 10 countries. Bed prevalence increased in seven countries, but decreased in three. The median psychiatric bed prevalence was 1.5 at the first and 2.9 per 100,000 population at the last data point (+94%). The prison population increased in nine countries, with the median rate changing from 60 to 123 (+106%). Data on specialized forensic psychiatric beds were available from seven countries, with a range of 0.0–0.5 beds at the last data point. Based on data from five countries, the median prevalence of beds in residential facilities increased from 1.3 to 2.3. Psychiatric bed prevalence was on average about 5% of that in the OECD, while prison population rates were similar to those in OECD countries.
Interpretation
Psychiatric bed provision in the SEAR is among the lowest worldwide. In contrast, incarceration rates are similar to those in high-income regions. Most countries have increased the prevalence of psychiatric beds over the past three decades, but they remain scarce, and further investments need consideration.
Funding
Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo (ANID), Chile.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.lansea.2025.100687
Surender Grover, Jadeer K. Muhammed, Atul Ambekar, Priyanka Saha
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