Community Interventions to Promote Mental Health and Social Equity.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose of review

We review recent community interventions to promote mental health and social equity. We define community interventions as those that involve multi-sector partnerships, emphasize community members as integral to the intervention, and/or deliver services in community settings. We examine literature in seven topic areas: collaborative care, early psychosis, school-based interventions, homelessness, criminal justice, global mental health, and mental health promotion/prevention. We adapt the social-ecological model for health promotion and provide a framework for understanding the actions of community interventions.

Recent findings

There are recent examples of effective interventions in each topic area. The majority of interventions focus on individual, family/i

SUBMITTER: Castillo EG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6440941 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature