This article provides a comprehensive overview of mental health issues and highlights the recommendations a World Health Organization study (four of fourteen are included here) that says mental health should be approached as a public health challenge.
…… This Global Mental Health Action Plan reflects the understanding that mental disorders are biopsychosocial in nature -- the result of biological, psychological, and social factors and their interaction. Therefore, effectively addressing mental illness and promoting mental health should be approached as a public health challenge, with interventions that focus on multiple contributory and protective factors including:
---Focusing on specific age, racial/ethnic and gender-related risk and protective factors
---Improving public and professional education to reduce stigma so that more people are willing and able to seek help
---Building a diverse mental health workforce
---Strengthening the role of primary care practitioners to screen for mental illness and referring patients to mental health professionals.
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