Editorial Mental health promotion

Editorial: Public Mental Health Policy, Mental Health Promotion, and Interventions Which Focus on the Social Determinants of Mental Health

The 2006 United Nations convention on the rights of persons with disabilities (CRPD) (1) enshrined a range of rights, with the aim of ensuring independence and full social inclusion for people with disabilities. The convention is based on a “social model” of disability, which underscores the role of social environments and systems in contributing to disability; it thus moves beyond a “medical m...

Editorial--health education and health promotion.

SIR As pointed out in your recent editorial (1) my contribution to the 1984 'controversy' defended not health promotion in all its many guises, but rather one particular interpretation of it (2). I was suggesting that there is a model of health promotion (elaborated upon elsewhere (3) which included health education at its best (no doubt of the type of which Gill Williams 'approves'), and where...

Editorial: Aging and Mental Health

According to the " Mental Health Action Plan 2013–2020 " (WHO, 2013), mental health is an integral part of health and well-being and includes not only individual characteristics but also social, cultural, economic political, and environmental factors. The report recognizes that depending on the context certain groups, such as older people, are at higher risk of having mental health problems and...

Health Promotion and Aging "mental Health"

Intgoduction: The emphasis in this paper is on the direction that health promotion efforts might take to enhance the mental health of the elderly by building on the established effectiveness of primary, secondary and tertiary health care interventions. This approach accepts that health promotion strategies should invoke the capacity of elderly persons to take responsibility for their health sty...

Integrating primary mental health care and mental health promotion.