Throughout the 20th century, the mission of local and state public health departments broadened from infectious disease prevention and control to encompass maternal and child health, immunizations, food and water safety, environmental health, and chronic disease prevention (1-3). Now it is recognized that mental illness, especially depression, influences the treatment and outcomes of many chron...

This article reviews the current literature regarding treatments for smoking cessation in both the general population and in those with mental health problems. The gold-standard treatment for the general population is pharmacotherapy (nicotine replacement therapy, bupropion or varenicline) coupled with individual or group psychological support. This is also effective in helping people with ment...

Paramedics, health care workers who assess and manage health concerns in the prehospital setting, are increasingly providing psychosocial care in response to a rise in mental health call volume. Observers have construed this fact as "misuse" of paramedic services, and proposed as solutions better triaging of patients, better mental health training of paramedics, and a greater number of communit...

The government's Public Health White Paper for England sets out a utopian vision of how to prevent and remedy mental health problems. The public health approach relies on primary prevention, promoting individual responsibilities and resilience, while also sustaining existing services and tackling inequalities. These ambitions are consistent with the preventive psychiatric paradigm, and with the...

Delayed presentation of children with cancer is a significant barrier to improving the survival from children's cancer in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Botswana, a country of approximately 2 million people in southern Africa, has only 1 pediatric cancer treatment program, based at Princess Marina Hospital (PMH) in the capital of Gaborone. A pediatric cancer recognition training prog...

Positive mental health is a state of health, which supports people in face different difficulties, enabling them to identify their social skills, with the aim being more productive, emotionally stable and proactive, helping promoting community development. Objective: We analyzed positive level outpatients according socio-demographic variables centers Arequipa, Peru. Methods: Descriptive, quanti...

Mental health is an important aspect of public health after a disaster. This article describes what is known and what remains to be learned regarding the mental health impact of the January 12, 2010, earthquake in Haiti. Public health surveillance efforts in Haiti and the United States in the first 2 months after the earthquake are described. Challenges in clinical assessment and public health ...

1 Centre for Global Mental Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom, 2 Sangath, Goa, India, 3 Centre for Mental Health, Public Health Foundation of India, India, 4 Program in Global Mental Health, New York University School of Medicine, New York, United States of America, 5 New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, New York, United States of America, 6 Simon Fr...

1 Centre for Global Mental Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom, 2 Sangath, Goa, India, 3 Centre for Mental Health, Public Health Foundation of India, India, 4 Program in Global Mental Health, New York University School of Medicine, New York, United States of America, 5 New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, New York, United States of America, 6 Simon Fr...