Global mental health is the field concerned with improving mental health and achieving equity in mental health care for all populations worldwide, with particular attention to the disparities that disadvantage low-resource and marginalized groups. It applies epidemiology, public health, and the social sciences to un…
Global mental health is the field concerned with improving mental health and achieving equity in mental health care for all populations worldwide, with particular attention to the disparities that disadvantage low-resource and marginalized groups. It applies epidemiology, public health, and the social sciences to understand the distribution and determinants of mental disorders and to scale up evidence-based interventions across diverse cultural and economic settings. A central theme is the treatment gap, the wide difference between the prevalence of conditions such as depression, anxiety, psychosis, and post-traumatic stress disorder and the proportion of affected people who receive adequate care, especially where specialist services are scarce. The field examines social and structural determinants, including poverty, gender inequality, conflict, displacement, and stigma, and the rights of vulnerable groups such as women with mental illness. It encompasses perinatal and postpartum mood and anxiety disorders, the under-recognition of conditions in particular populations, and the mental health needs of veterans and their families. Research priorities include task-sharing and community-based delivery, integration of mental health into primary care, culturally adapted measurement, and the collection of population-level opinion and prevalence data. Global mental health intersects human rights, health policy, and clinical practice to inform equitable, context-sensitive responses.
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