Public Mental Health
William W. Eaton and M. Daniele Fallin
Abstract
Public Mental Health provides a comprehensive introduction and guide to the public health approach to mental and behavioral disorders, and to promotion of mental health. The volume’s chapter authors and coauthors are drawn from the internationally renowned faculty of the Department of Mental Health of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, a department uniquely positioned to create this important resource for researchers, students, and public health practitioners. The volume explicates the latest methodologies for studying the occurrence of mental disorders in populations, and pr ... More
Public Mental Health provides a comprehensive introduction and guide to the public health approach to mental and behavioral disorders, and to promotion of mental health. The volume’s chapter authors and coauthors are drawn from the internationally renowned faculty of the Department of Mental Health of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, a department uniquely positioned to create this important resource for researchers, students, and public health practitioners. The volume explicates the latest methodologies for studying the occurrence of mental disorders in populations, and provides estimates of burden, cultural differences, natural history, and disparities between population subgroups. It includes reviews of genetic and biological pathways as sources of risk for mental disorders, the occurrence of stresses and their timing over the life span, and crises and disasters as sources of risk. The book includes chapters on the structure and functioning of the mental health service system in the United States, and around the world, and a comprehensive review of population-based strategies of intervention to lower risk. A final chapter lays out a path for the evolution of public mental health in the future.
Keywords:
mental health,
mental and behavioral disorders,
public health,
psychiatric epidemiology,
mental health services,
genetics,
brain and behavior,
life course development,
prevention
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2019 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780190916602 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: June 2019 |
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780190916602.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
William W. Eaton, editor
Professor, Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
M. Daniele Fallin, editor
Sylvia and Harold Halpert Professor and Chair, Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
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