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Abstract
Public Mental Health Today: a handbook explores aspects of public mental health, focusing on the relationship between socio-economic inequalities and mental health inequalities as its central theme
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cover | Cover | ||
| Contents | 1 | ||
| About the contributors | 3 | ||
| Chapter 1: Introduction | 19 | ||
| Chapter 2: Understanding mental health | 35 | ||
| Chapter 3: Adopting a mental health promotion approach to public mental health | 49 | ||
| Chapter 4: Some sociological aspects of public mental health | 71 | ||
| Chapter 5: Improving public mental health: the European context | 83 | ||
| Chapter 6: Measuring success: developing mental health indicators | 103 | ||
| Chapter 7: Early years and public health: a case study from the Glasgow experience | 121 | ||
| Chapter 8: Promoting mental health and preventing mental health problems through school settings | 135 | ||
| Chapter 9: The mental health of veterans | 147 | ||
| Chapter 10: Later life: challenges and opportunities | 159 | ||
| Chapter 11: Mental well-being and black and minority ethnic communities: conceptual and practical issues | 175 | ||
| Chapter 12: Gender and mental health | 189 | ||
| Chapter 13: Improving public mental health: the role of people with a psychiatric diagnosis | 207 | ||
| Chapter 14: Stigma and discrimination | 215 | ||
| Chapter 15: Reflections upon practice and partnership working for mental health improvement | 229 | ||
| Chapter 16: Meeting the mental health needs of young people: a GP's perspective | 241 | ||
| Chapter 17: Place and space | 259 | ||
| Chapter 18: Strengthening mental health within communities | 271 | ||
| Chapter 19: The role of community development in tackling mental health inequalities | 285 | ||
| Chapter 20: Improving mental health through participatory arts | 299 | ||
| Chapter 21: Work and public mental health: welfare and well-being in and through employment | 311 | ||
| Chapter 22: Economics | 325 |