Week 10 Mind Map

  1. Health promotion practitioners can advocate for interventions across the five action areas of the Ottawa Charter to promote mental health and wellbeing, addressing risk factors, protective factors, and determinants of mental health.
  1. Collaborative approaches, policies, and programs are being developed to address mental health at individual, family, and societal levels.
  1. Public health practitioners in Canada use various terminologies for mental health promotion, including positive mental health, mental wellness, and population mental health.
  1. Strengthening mental health promotion efforts is important for improving population mental wellbeing and reducing the burden of mental health problems.
  1. The Mental Health Commission of Canada released the national mental health strategy in 2012, focusing on service delivery, prevention, and addressing social determinants.

a. Intersectoral approaches to mental health promotion, including partnership and community-based efforts, are recommended by national and international organizations

ii. unfamiliarity

iii. competency working with MHP

Challenges to implementing MHP include: i. practitioners' lack of interest.

a. Provinces and territories have also developed strategies and action plans to promote mental health and substance use, emphasizing both downstream and upstream approaches.

i. The success of these policies depends on effective implementation and community engagement.

a. Integrating mental health into health promotion faces barriers such as misconceptions that mental health is only relevant to those with mental illness.

iii. meaningful engagement

iv. building existing strengths

ii. positive conceptualization of mental health

v. collaborative action on determinants

MHP initiatives should focus on: i. tailored and culturally appropriate approaches

vi. Evidence informed actions

a. Language used for promoting mental health should be reflective of cultural, social, and political context to capture stakeholders' attention.

i. Mental health messaging can be embedded into existing health promotion initiatives and other fields of practice such as social work, healthcare, and veterans' affairs.

a. Communities and policymakers are being engaged to better understand and take action on population mental health issues.

i. Services are being delivered directly to stakeholders to promote protective factors and reduce mental health inequities.