Summary
This special issue of the American Journal of Public Health (AJPH), co-edited by UCLA Professor and UCLA CHPR Senior Fellow Vickie Mays, PhD, and UCLA Professor Susan Cochran, PhD, addresses improving the conditions that promote mental health and prevent mental disorders.
The papers explore innovations to infuse a public mental health agenda more thoroughly into interventions, research, and legislative and social policies.
Topics include the impact of COVID-19 on youths and the need for public health policy advisories that focus on mental health consequences in addition to infection control; the increasing rates of suicide among Black youths, some as young as 5 years of age; the importance of primary care referrals that consider gendered differences in the expression of distress; the history of racism that continues to affect the diagnoses and treatment of African Americans; and the impact of the devastating fire in Lahaina on residents' well-being.
Read the Publication:
- Special AJPH issue: The Social Context of Mental Health, Bereavement, and Grief
Mays also co-authored the following articles in the issue:
- Journal Article: Society’s Role in Addressing Mental Health, Grief Crisis: A Call for Public Support
- Journal Article: Societal Mental Health Challenges: Advocating for a National Policy Response
- Journal Article: Gendered Patterns in Manifest and Latent Mental Health Indicators Among Suicide Decedents: 2003–2020 National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS)