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Mental Health Promotion-Overview

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To attain the state of complete health, mental well-being is essential. Mental health contributes in enhancing the quality of life. To achieve the same, promotion of mental health is of utmost importance apart from preventing mental illnesses and their early diagnosis and treatment. The tenants of mental health promotion are the same as that of health promotion in general. They are building healthy public policy, developing personal skills, creating supportive environments, reorienting health services, strengthening community action. Mental health promotion interventions not only lead to reduction of risk factors for mental illnesses, but it also leads to overall better health, social and economical advancements. There need to be separate interventions for childhood, adult age, and elderly populations, for, e.g., pre-school educational and psychosocial interventions, changing school ecology, reducing the strain of unemployment, stress prevention programs at the workplace, and improving the mental health of the elderly. The three key strategies for mental health promotion are advocacy, empowerment, and social support. Mental health promotion needs an intersectoral approach. Those working collaboratively need to: Build on existing activity in sectors, settings, and organizations; Create different partnerships for different purposes, at varying levels; and create collaborative action “horizontally” within government departments and organizations, patients and between those who are expert in policy, practice, and research.

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  1. Deva Institute of Healthcare and Research Pvt. Ltd, B 27/70 MN, Durgakund, Varanasi, 221005, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Venu Gopal Jhanwar

  2. Department of Psychiatry, Himalayan Institute of Medical Sciences, Jolly Grant, Dehradun, 248140, Uttarakhand, India

    Priya Ranjan Avinash

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  1. Dr. Bährer-Kohler & Partners, Basel, Switzerland

    Sabine Bährer-Kohler

  2. International University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain

    Francisco Javier Carod-Artal

Take Away Messages

Take Away Messages

Mental health promotion is the need of the time. We would like to drive our point further by suggesting these take away messages

  1. A.

    Health promotion and prevention is incomplete without including mental health as an integral part of it.

  2. B.

    Policies at the level of global, national, and local levels for the promotion of mental health are required.

  3. C.

    Needs to be integrated with the existing primary healthcare model.

  4. D.

    Use the communities’ knowledge and competencies.

  5. E.

    Include all stakeholders in framing and administering policies and actions.

  6. F.

    Train Scientists and professional to translate research findings and experiences.

  7. G.

    Strengthen the manpower and train the existing one in mental health promotion strategies.

  8. H.

    Sustain and evaluate effective mental health treatment and promotions.

  9. I.

    Focus on social and economic determinants of mental health.

  10. J.

    Determine which innovation or promotion will scale up.

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Jhanwar, V.G., Avinash, P.R. (2017). Mental Health Promotion-Overview. In: Bährer-Kohler, S., Carod-Artal, F. (eds) Global Mental Health . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59123-0_9

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