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We summarize current studies related to changes in the conceptualization of social determinants; how social determinants impact mental health; what we have learned from social determinant interventions; and new methods to collect, use and analyze social determinant data.
Good mental health is integral to human health and well being. A person’s mental health and many common mental disorders are shaped by various social, economic, and physical environments operating at different stages of life.
provide an overview of the social determinants of mental health, discuss why they deserve special emphasis, and provide recommendations for how psychiatrists and other mental health clinicians can incorporate this perspective into their work both within and outside of clinical settings. CONCEPTUALIZING THE SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF MENTAL HEALTH
In this paper we provide a roadmap to address the social determinants that cause mental ill health. Relying as far as possible on high-quality evidence, we first map out the literature that supports a causal link between social determinants and later mental health outcomes.
Social determinants are receiving renewed attention as research demonstrates the effects of social factors on individuals’ physical and mental health and elucidates the biological and psychological mechanisms underlying those effects.
Risk factors for many common mental disorders are heavily associated with social inequalities, whereby the greater the inequality the higher the inequality in risk. The poor and disadvantaged suffer disproportionately, but those in the middle of the social gradient are also affected.
Promotion and prevention interventions work by identifying the individual, social and structural determinants of mental health, and then intervening to reduce risks, build resilience and establish supportive environments for mental health.
Social determinants of mental health include social, economic, and environmental factors. impacts an individual’s likelihood and severity of mental health outcomes. Although these factors can not directly change an individual's fixed characteristics of the social determinants of mental health, they can affect the degree to which an individual ...
Social determinants of mental health encompass the set of structural conditions to which people are exposed across the life course, from conception to death, which affect individual mental health outcomes, and contribute to mental health disparities within and between populations.
Social determinants are the “the causes of the causes” of ill health, including mental ill health (8, 9). Only by understanding and intervening in the primary drivers of our malaise and illnesses can we hope to prevent or treat these illnesses effectively.