Essay On Mental Health

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Introduction
In the developed countries, life expectancy has been known to show a rate of steady improvement in the last few years (WHO report, 2002). However, the point to notice here is that this improvement has not been consistent among all the different segments present in a given population. There are major inequalities when it comes to the different population groups, and in some countries it has been noticed that these inequalities seem to be increasing. Irrespective of the country, or the population group, inequalities present in health and healthcare services happen to be an unacceptable circumstance. This view was expressed for the first time in the Declaration of Alma Ata (1978) and it explicitly stated that “the existing gross inequality in the health status of the people … is politically, socially and economically unacceptable”
In that respect, mental health of all individuals happen o be an issue of public health. Mental illness, especially large scale depression, happens to be one of the largest sources of burden among diseases all over the world. There aren’t a lot of other diseases that could possibly match up to depression in the collective extent in terms of persistence, prevalence and most importantly the breadth of impact (Friedli and Parsonage, 2007). Mental health is determined with the help of a very wide range of health and social outcomes surrounding an individual. At the societal and community levels also the state of mental health of the individual who form the part of the society and community tends to have a very direct impact on the lives of everyone who is a part of it. Socio economic and health related problems happen to be a direct outcome of poor mental health, especially depression, wh...

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Prevention of mental illness and promotion of well-being:
There are different effective interventions which can help maintaining the mental health in the later year of the psychological interventions and these areas are like high social support in times of adversity, (Merry et al.,2006) walking and physical activity programs, prevention of social isolation, addressing sensory deficit such as deafness, multi-agency violence prevention, adequate heating, promoting learning, psycho educational interventions for careers and poverty reduction in the society at large. (Kirkwood et al., 2008) It is very important not only to target those people with the most severe illness but also to address the needs of larger populations. The population with common mental disorders and those with a sub threshold disorder are also the responsibility of the society and the system.

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