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Prevention of mental illness within public health: An analysis of progress via systematic literature review and a pathway forward
Primary prevention is the cornerstone of public health. Prevention is especially important for chronic diseases of significant burden such as mental illnesses because many of them have limited treatment options, an onset in childhood or in adolescence, and are linked to adverse childhood experiences...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10238837/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37273525 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pmedr.2023.102249 |
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author | Waechter, Randall Gallant, Cassandra De Wilde, Kristen Arens, Gabrielle Brady, Taylor Custodio, Jasmin Wakita, Yusuke Landon, Barbara Boateng, Yvonne Parthab, Nadeem Bhagat, Anjali |
author_facet | Waechter, Randall Gallant, Cassandra De Wilde, Kristen Arens, Gabrielle Brady, Taylor Custodio, Jasmin Wakita, Yusuke Landon, Barbara Boateng, Yvonne Parthab, Nadeem Bhagat, Anjali |
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description | Primary prevention is the cornerstone of public health. Prevention is especially important for chronic diseases of significant burden such as mental illnesses because many of them have limited treatment options, an onset in childhood or in adolescence, and are linked to adverse childhood experiences requiring a focus on early childhood and maternal-child health (MCH). Despite this need, there appears to be a paucity of research into prevention of mental illnesses within public health. To confirm this, we performed a systematic literature review to quantify the proportion of articles in public health that focus on prevention of mental illness versus intervention for these illnesses after their onset, and the proportion of published articles within MCH that focus on mental health. Between November 2019 and August 2021, we reviewed 211,794 published articles from 147 Scimago-ranked English public health journals with no limit on year of publication. As hypothesized, a very small portion (2.2%) of mental health articles included primary prevention and a small portion of MCH articles (7.8%) included mental health. These results are consistent with the existence of a research gap in mental illness prevention within the public health field. Given the early onset of mental illness, the importance of early childhood experiences in the later development of mental illness, and the importance of the social-emotional connection between mother and child for building resilience, public health professionals must incorporate evidence from the field of MCH to develop and assess more primary prevention programs for mental illness. |
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spelling | pubmed-102388372023-06-04 Prevention of mental illness within public health: An analysis of progress via systematic literature review and a pathway forward Waechter, Randall Gallant, Cassandra De Wilde, Kristen Arens, Gabrielle Brady, Taylor Custodio, Jasmin Wakita, Yusuke Landon, Barbara Boateng, Yvonne Parthab, Nadeem Bhagat, Anjali Prev Med Rep Regular Article Primary prevention is the cornerstone of public health. Prevention is especially important for chronic diseases of significant burden such as mental illnesses because many of them have limited treatment options, an onset in childhood or in adolescence, and are linked to adverse childhood experiences requiring a focus on early childhood and maternal-child health (MCH). Despite this need, there appears to be a paucity of research into prevention of mental illnesses within public health. To confirm this, we performed a systematic literature review to quantify the proportion of articles in public health that focus on prevention of mental illness versus intervention for these illnesses after their onset, and the proportion of published articles within MCH that focus on mental health. Between November 2019 and August 2021, we reviewed 211,794 published articles from 147 Scimago-ranked English public health journals with no limit on year of publication. As hypothesized, a very small portion (2.2%) of mental health articles included primary prevention and a small portion of MCH articles (7.8%) included mental health. These results are consistent with the existence of a research gap in mental illness prevention within the public health field. Given the early onset of mental illness, the importance of early childhood experiences in the later development of mental illness, and the importance of the social-emotional connection between mother and child for building resilience, public health professionals must incorporate evidence from the field of MCH to develop and assess more primary prevention programs for mental illness. 2023-05-18 /pmc/articles/PMC10238837/ /pubmed/37273525 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pmedr.2023.102249 Text en © 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Regular Article Waechter, Randall Gallant, Cassandra De Wilde, Kristen Arens, Gabrielle Brady, Taylor Custodio, Jasmin Wakita, Yusuke Landon, Barbara Boateng, Yvonne Parthab, Nadeem Bhagat, Anjali Prevention of mental illness within public health: An analysis of progress via systematic literature review and a pathway forward |
title | Prevention of mental illness within public health: An analysis of progress via systematic literature review and a pathway forward |
title_full | Prevention of mental illness within public health: An analysis of progress via systematic literature review and a pathway forward |
title_fullStr | Prevention of mental illness within public health: An analysis of progress via systematic literature review and a pathway forward |
title_full_unstemmed | Prevention of mental illness within public health: An analysis of progress via systematic literature review and a pathway forward |
title_short | Prevention of mental illness within public health: An analysis of progress via systematic literature review and a pathway forward |
title_sort | prevention of mental illness within public health: an analysis of progress via systematic literature review and a pathway forward |
topic | Regular Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10238837/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37273525 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pmedr.2023.102249 |
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