In 2008, the faculty of the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis designed a Master of Public Health program centered on transdisciplinary problem solving in public health. We have described the rationale for our approach, guiding principles and pedagogy for the program, and specific transdisciplinary competencies students acquire. We have explained how transdisciplinary content ha...

In this paper, we examine the effect of public health insurance expansions during 1997-2002 on the mental and behavioral health of children. Using three waves of the National Survey of America’s Families (NSAF) and legislative State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) and Medicaid income eligibility thresholds by state-year-age, we explore the causal impact of public health insurance ge...

BACKGROUND People who suffer from mental illness, the professionals who treat them, and indeed the actual concept of mental illness are all stigmatised in public perception and often receive very negative publicity. This paper looks at Iraq, which has a population of 30 million who are mainly Moslem. Mental health services and professionals have historically been sparse in Iraq with 1 psychiatr...

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The diagnosis of personality disorder often appears to tell as much about the diagnoser as the diagnosed. For many it describes those who are deemed personally offensive, and as such it is not so much a diagnosis as a value judgment, the product of a negative interaction between two people that is given spurious respectability by a medical label. It is argued that these attitudes constitute a d...

We define the concept of mental health on the basis of the realization that mental health is not just a health phenomenon anymore, but also a social and psychological one. By defining mental health separately from mental illnesses, it is placed into the concept of public health, which exceeds the medical definition of the determination of a “mental illness”. The anthropology of health defines t...

MENTAL HEALTH PLANNING FOR SOCIAL ACTION. By George S. Stevenson. New York, The Blakiston Division, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1956. 358 pp. $6.50. Few, if any, have done as much to advance the cause of mental health as the author of this book for which so many have waited with keen anticipation. Dr. Stevenson, with rare insight and judgment, has presented the challenge that "there is more...

Jails and prisons are responsible for providing medical and mental health care to individuals in their custody. In many cases, correctional facilities have become the default medical and mental health treatment provider for offenders. Public health and public safety are interrelated issues; for example, drug abusers are 3–4 times more likely to commit crimes, and individuals with mental health ...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES The purpose of the paper was to describe the perceptions of public health nurses' roles in relation to psychotropic drug use by adolescents. BACKGROUND Mental health problems among adolescents are documented with studies indicating an increased use of psychotropic drugs. In Norway, care for such adolescents may fall naturally into the remit of public health nurses. DESIG...