Mental Health in Public Health

"This wide-ranging collection of papers illuminates many aspects of mental health as a public health concern. Whether readers' interest is childhood or old age, the United States or the developing world, depression or schizophrenia, they will find something to interest and inform them. Particularly insightful are the "Presidential Perspectives" in which past presidents of APPA muse on what the future holds for psychiatry, in the context of public health. Medical education in the United States largely ignores public health. This book can help to open clinicians' eyes to the gains that can be made by taking a public health approach to some of the seemingly intractable problems of mental disorders worldwide." --- E. Jane Costello, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham NC "Mental Health in Public Health is two books in one. Part 1 is a compilation of thoughtful chapters demonstrating the critical role that mental health plays in the public health of populations around the world. Each of the chapters is a variation and exposition on the theme that mental health and public health are two sides of the same coin. The value of this concept is shown from childhood to old age, from the healthy to the medically unhealthy, from populations living in peace to those exposed to the horrors of war, from low income populations and countries to wealthy populations and countries." -- Evelyn J. Bromet, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry, Stony Brook University, Putnam Hall-South Campus, Stony Brook, NY