- Quote: "It is a state of well-being in which the individual realizes his or her abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and can contribute to his or her community."
Understanding of policies and programs related to the prevention, treatment, and management of mental health conditions.
Epidemiology: Study of the patterns, causes, and effects of health and disease conditions in defined populations.
Public Health: Concerned with promoting and protecting the health of communities, particularly those disadvantaged or marginalized sections of society.
Healthcare economics: Study of issues related to the provision, delivery, and financing of healthcare services.
Healthcare systems: Study of the different systems and models of healthcare provision, such as single-payer, universal, or market-based systems.
Mental health policy: Development and implementation of policies related to the treatment and care of individuals with mental illnesses and disorders.
Access to care: Strategies and policies aimed at improving access to care for individuals with mental illnesses, such as increasing availability and reducing barriers to care.
Medicaid and Medicare: Federal health programs that provide healthcare coverage to low-income individuals and seniors respectively.
Mental health parity: Legislation that requires health insurance plans to provide equal coverage for mental health and substance use disorders as they do for physical health conditions.
Stigma: Reduction of discrimination or negative attitudes towards individuals with mental illnesses and disorders.
Community-based services: Provision of mental health services and support in community settings rather than institutionalized care.
Workforce development: Training and support for the mental health workforce to ensure adequate supply and quality of professionals.
Health equity: Promoting fair and just access to healthcare services and addressing the social determinants of health to reduce disparities.
Health information technology: Utilization of technology to support and enhance mental health services and delivery.
Prevention: Programs and policies aimed at preventing mental illnesses and disorders before they occur.
Crisis intervention: Provision of immediate assistance and support during a mental health crisis.
Advocacy: Promotion of policies and laws that support the mental health of individuals and communities.
Access to Care Policy: This policy ensures that people have proper access to mental health care services by designing regulations, creating funding for treatment, and promoting early identification and intervention.
Financing Policy: This policy gives resources and programs to finance mental health care services through the government, private entities, and public-private partnerships.
Parity Policy: This policy ensures that mental health care services are treated equally by commercial health insurers with medical and surgical benefits.
Integration Policy: This policy supports integration to ensure that mental health care services are comprehensively incorporated within primary healthcare, other healthcare services, and social services.
Prevention Policy: This policy seeks to reduce risk factors by promoting preventive interventions and campaigns, increasing awareness, and educating people on mental health.
Quality Policy: This policy ensures that mental health care services are delivered efficiently, effectively, and reliably, and the services are patient-centered and evidence-based.
Workforce Policy: This policy enhances the mental health workforce by increasing the number of mental health care practitioners, recruiting, and retaining nursing staff, and providing support to trained mental health practitioners.
Criminal Justice Policy: This policy ensures that mentally ill people involved with the criminal justice system are identified, quickly evaluated, and given appropriate treatment and support.
Housing and Homelessness Policy: This policy seeks to provide affordable housing for mentally-ill people, create regulations to prevent evictions, guarantee housing rights as human rights, and provide support for the homeless with mental health issues.
Cultural Competence Policy: This policy promotes awareness, understanding, and sensitivity to cultural, linguistic, and other barriers faced by diverse populations having mental health issues.
- Quote: "Mental health encompasses emotional, psychological, and social well-being, influencing cognition, perception, and behavior."
- Quote: "Mental health includes subjective well-being, perceived self-efficacy, autonomy, competence, intergenerational dependence, and self-actualization of one's intellectual and emotional potential, among others."
- Quote: "It likewise determines how an individual handles stress, interpersonal relationships, and decision-making."
- Quote: "From the perspectives of positive psychology or holism, mental health may include an individual's ability to enjoy life and to create a balance between life activities and efforts to achieve psychological resilience."
- Quote: "Cultural differences, subjective assessments, and competing professional theories all affect how one defines 'mental health'."
- Quote: "Some early signs related to mental health difficulties are sleep irritation, lack of energy, lack of appetite, and thinking of harming oneself or others."
- Quote: "It also includes self-isolating and frequently zoning out."
- Quote: "It determines how an individual... can contribute to his or her community."
- Quote: "An individual's ability to work productively and fruitfully is influenced by mental health."
- Quote: "Mental health includes subjective well-being, perceived self-efficacy, autonomy, competence, intergenerational dependence, and self-actualization of one's intellectual and emotional potential."
- Quote: "Mental health includes an individual's ability to enjoy life and to create a balance between life activities and efforts to achieve psychological resilience."
- Quote: "Mental health determines how an individual handles... decision-making."
- Quote: "Mental health determines how an individual handles stress, interpersonal relationships..."
- Quote: "Thinking of harming oneself or others" is an early sign related to mental health difficulties.
- Quote: "Early signs related to mental health difficulties are sleep irritation, lack of energy, lack of appetite..."
- Quote: "Mental health encompasses emotional, psychological, and social well-being, influencing cognition, perception..."
- Quote: "Perceived self-efficacy, autonomy, competence, intergenerational dependence, and self-actualization of one's intellectual and emotional potential" are included in mental health.
- Quote: "Mental health may include an individual's ability to create a balance between life activities and efforts to achieve psychological resilience."
- Quote: "Competing professional theories all affect how one defines 'mental health'."