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Chapter 6 - The Social Determinants of Mental Health

from Section 2 - Scoping

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 June 2019

By
Kamaldeep S. Bhui ,
Oliver Quantick  and
David Ross
Edited by
Richard Williams ,
Verity Kemp ,
S. Alexander Haslam ,
Catherine Haslam ,
Kamaldeep S. Bhui  and
Susan Bailey
Edited in association with
Daniel Maughan
Richard Williams
Affiliation:
University of South Wales
Verity Kemp
Affiliation:
Healthplanning Ltd.
S. Alexander Haslam
Affiliation:
University of Queensland
Catherine Haslam
Affiliation:
University of Queensland
Kamaldeep S. Bhui
Affiliation:
Queen Mary University of London
Susan Bailey
Affiliation:
Centre for Mental Health
Daniel Maughan
Affiliation:
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
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Summary

Public health is defined by the UK’s Faculty of Public Health as ‘The science and art of promoting and protecting health and well being, preventing ill health and prolonging life through the organised efforts of society’.

This definition locates the causes of ill health and the remedies in the realms of personal and societal agency, and not only in the remit of health practitioners. Although the latter have a role as members of society to make prevention a reality for themselves, families and communities, they play a special part in preventing further ill health for people who suffer mental illness and are seeking help for it.

Other chapters in this book attend to the relational and social fabric that enables people to flourish; it is made of good and trusting relationships, and material conditions that permit thought about purpose and meaning beyond survival.

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Social Scaffolding
Applying the Lessons of Contemporary Social Science to Health and Healthcare
 , pp. 43 - 57
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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