Improving the Health of Canadians: Exploring Positive Mental Health
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Pages: 103
Date published: March 3, 2009
ISBN 978-1-55465-489-5 (PDF)
Summary Report (PDF) 245 KB
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Mental health is more than the absence of mental illness. It is a component of overall health and is shaped by individual, physical environment, social, cultural and socio-economic characteristics. Increasingly, mental health is moving to the forefront of discussions and action on overall health and well-being. However, much of the work in this area to date has not focused on supporting the development of positive mental health; instead, it has had a primary focus on mental illness, specifically service-, access- and stigma-related issues. This was seen as a gap by the experts with whom CPHI consulted regarding the focus of this report. Positive mental health is a construct that is still being developed and for which literature is emerging.
Improving the Health of Canadians: Exploring Positive Mental Health brings together available information and data analyses that look at one way of defining positive mental health, how we currently measure it, its role in health, the factors associated with high levels of positive mental health and what strategies are, or may be, effective at promoting mental health at a population level.
Errata April 8 2009, (PDF) 282 KB
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