Social Determinants of Mental Health

Copyright

2014

Published By

World Health Organization

This paper aims to enhance knowledge about the many interacting forces that shape individual and collective levels of mental health and well-being and set out actions that can be pursued to promote and protect good mental health. It provides a framework that employs a life course approach for assessing the social determinants of mental health and demonstrates how risk exposures in the formative stages of life can affect mental well-being or predispose towards mental disorder years later.