Stemming the tide: promoting mental health and preventing mental disorders in low- and middle-income countries
The first World Health Organization's global action plan for mental health recognizes the importance of mental health promotion and prevention of mental disorders, through the inclusion of one of four objectives focused on this crucial area of research and practice. This paper aims to provide a...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Cambridge University Press
2015-01-01
|
| Series: | Cambridge Prisms: Global Mental Health |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2054425115000096/type/journal_article |
| _version_ | 1811156092294529024 |
|---|---|
| author | W. A. Tol |
| author_facet | W. A. Tol |
| author_sort | W. A. Tol |
| collection | DOAJ |
| description | The first World Health Organization's global action plan for mental health recognizes the importance of mental health promotion and prevention of mental disorders, through the inclusion of one of four objectives focused on this crucial area of research and practice. This paper aims to provide an ‘aerial view’ of the field of mental health promotion and prevention of mental disorders with a focus on low- and middle-income countries. Starting with reasons why promotion and prevention need to take center stage in global mental health efforts, the paper provides a framework and four general principles to guide such efforts: a socio-ecological perspective (place); an inter-sectoral and interdisciplinary approach (collaboration), a developmental perspective (timing), and a participatory and empowerment approach (strengths), or PaCTS. Evidence-based examples of mental health promotion, universal, selective, and indicated prevention are described. |
| first_indexed | 2024-04-10T04:45:47Z |
| format | Article |
| id | doaj.art-1a512731a18143a1bacd18055ea5ef94 |
| institution | Directory Open Access Journal |
| issn | 2054-4251 |
| language | English |
| last_indexed | 2024-04-10T04:45:47Z |
| publishDate | 2015-01-01 |
| publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| record_format | Article |
| series | Cambridge Prisms: Global Mental Health |
| spelling | doaj.art-1a512731a18143a1bacd18055ea5ef942023-03-09T12:35:32ZengCambridge University PressCambridge Prisms: Global Mental Health2054-42512015-01-01210.1017/gmh.2015.9Stemming the tide: promoting mental health and preventing mental disorders in low- and middle-income countriesW. A. Tol0Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 624 N Broadway, Baltimore, MD, USA Program Director, the Peter C. Alderman Foundation, Bedford, NY, USAThe first World Health Organization's global action plan for mental health recognizes the importance of mental health promotion and prevention of mental disorders, through the inclusion of one of four objectives focused on this crucial area of research and practice. This paper aims to provide an ‘aerial view’ of the field of mental health promotion and prevention of mental disorders with a focus on low- and middle-income countries. Starting with reasons why promotion and prevention need to take center stage in global mental health efforts, the paper provides a framework and four general principles to guide such efforts: a socio-ecological perspective (place); an inter-sectoral and interdisciplinary approach (collaboration), a developmental perspective (timing), and a participatory and empowerment approach (strengths), or PaCTS. Evidence-based examples of mental health promotion, universal, selective, and indicated prevention are described.https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2054425115000096/type/journal_articlemental healthlow- and middle-income countriesmental health promotionpreventionglobal mental healthpublic mental health |
| spellingShingle | W. A. Tol Stemming the tide: promoting mental health and preventing mental disorders in low- and middle-income countries Cambridge Prisms: Global Mental Health mental health low- and middle-income countries mental health promotion prevention global mental health public mental health |
| title | Stemming the tide: promoting mental health and preventing mental disorders in low- and middle-income countries |
| title_full | Stemming the tide: promoting mental health and preventing mental disorders in low- and middle-income countries |
| title_fullStr | Stemming the tide: promoting mental health and preventing mental disorders in low- and middle-income countries |
| title_full_unstemmed | Stemming the tide: promoting mental health and preventing mental disorders in low- and middle-income countries |
| title_short | Stemming the tide: promoting mental health and preventing mental disorders in low- and middle-income countries |
| title_sort | stemming the tide promoting mental health and preventing mental disorders in low and middle income countries |
| topic | mental health low- and middle-income countries mental health promotion prevention global mental health public mental health |
| url | https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2054425115000096/type/journal_article |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT watol stemmingthetidepromotingmentalhealthandpreventingmentaldisordersinlowandmiddleincomecountries |