Mental health as a public health issue

MENTAL HEALTH AS A PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUE: Article List on Interactions Between Poverty and Mental Health

This list of journal article focuses on the multi-faceted connections between mental health and poverty for individuals and families domestically and abroad, addressing areas such as prevalence, neighborhood impact, and service access. Because there has been a lot published on this topic, this list includes only a cross-section of articles published since 2000. Literature reviews appear first, ...

Mental Health as a Public Health Issue: Mental Health and Nutrition

Citation: Alaimo, K., Olson, C. M., & Frongillo, E. A. (2001). Food insufficiency and American school-aged children’s cognitive, academic, and psychosocial development. Pediatrics, 108(1), 44-53. Link: http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/108/1/44.short Summary: This study looked at the relationships between food insufficiency and young people’s (ages 6-16 years) academic, cognitive, a...

Perinatal Mental Health: A Public Health Concern

letter to the editor does not have abstract.

A Case for Open Network Health Systems: Systems as Networks in Public Mental Health

Increases in incidents involving so-called confused persons have brought attention to the potential costs of recent changes to public mental health (PMH) services in the Netherlands. Decentralized under the (Community) Participation Act (2014), local governments must find resources to compensate for reduced central funding to such services or “innovate.” But innovation, even when pressure for c...

Mental Health — An Issue Neglected by European Public Health Systems?