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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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Autores principales: 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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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2023
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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/).
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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
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title_fullStr Prevention of mental illness within public health: An analysis of progress via systematic literature review and a pathway forward
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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
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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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