Educating Health Professionals to Address the Social Determinants of Mental Health: Proceedings of a Workshop

by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Board on Global Health, Institute of Medicine

The social determinants of mental health involve the economic, social, and political conditions into which one is born that influence a person's mental health - and, in particular, that affect the likelihood a person raised in deficient or dangerous conditions often associated with poverty will develop persistent mental health challenges throughout his or her life.

To explore how health professions education and practice organizations and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309672937
• ISBN13: 9780309672931
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 118 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.9"