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Mental Health Promotion (MHP) - Coggle Diagram
Mental Health Promotion (MHP)
1.What does MHP do?
MHP enhance the capacity of individuals and communities to take control over their lives and improve their mental health.
MHP aims to increase individuals' or communities' self-esteem, coping skills, social support and well-being.
What are some of the mental health strategy in Canada?
Changing Directions, Changing Lives (2012) mentioned the social determinants of mental health, strategies for reducing disparities and addressing diversity. It also emphasized the mental health needs for Indigenous people.
A Path Forward (2013) acknowledges the social, historical, and structural determinants that impact Indigenous people and their mental wellness, for example, social support, housing, early childhood education, etc.
Due to the complexity of mental health, MHP involves almost every public policy, for example, houseing, employment, justice, education, economic development, and environment.
What are some of the barriers in MHP?
Misconceptions that mental health is only relevant to the segment of population experiencing mental illness.
Misunderstanding that mental health and physical health issues exist in isolation of each other.
Other barriers include a lack of a provincial mandate contributing to unclear roles in public health, a lack of dedicated resources, coordination challenges among community partners, a lack of focus on MHP and mental illness prevention, stigma; and gaps in mental health services
What are some of the enablers in MHP?
Monitor the mental health of the population across the lifespan.
Ensure early and culturally safe identification and intervention to promote mental health in the population.
Develop policies and program collaboratively to address the mental wellbeing of communities.
Reduce mental health inequities by delivering services directly with stakeholders.
Foster appropriate strategic action by engaging with communities, policy makers, and professionals in other sectors.
How to improve MHP?
Health promotion practitioners must understand that they can not address inequities through one isolated policy, program, or educational initiative.
Health promotion practitioners must have leadership skills that inspire people to build and support partnerships, and new works across the nation.