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Epidemiology of Population-Based Behavioral Health Promotion: Social and Economic Factors That Impact Mental Illness
Epidemiology of Population-Based Behavioral Health Promotion: Social and Economic Factors That Impact Mental Illness
Monday, November 17, 2014
: 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM
Social and economic factors play an ineluctable role in shaping the health of populations. In many ways all efforts to promote mental health are limited, absent an effort to also improve the context that shapes mental illness. This presentation will offer a framework that explains the central role of social and economic factors in the the production of behavioral health. The presentation will also explore how social and economic factors present a real mathematical limit to the improvement in behavioral health that is achievable through interventions focused only on individual-based approaches.
Learning Areas:
Administer health education strategies, interventions and programsAdvocacy for health and health education
Epidemiology
Public health or related research
Learning Objectives:
Identify the role of social and economic factors in behavioral health
Describe the epidemiology of population-based health promotion approaches designed to prevent the onset of severe and persistent mental health symptoms.
Keyword(s): Chronic Disease Prevention, Epidemiology
Presenting author's disclosure statement:
Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am a professor of Epidemiology at Columbia University.
Any relevant financial relationships? No
I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.