Public Health Perspectives on Depressive Disorders

by Neal L. Cohen (Editor)

Overview

How does mental health impact public health?

In 2001, the WHO recognized depressive disorders as the leading cause of disability worldwide. But most Americans who meet diagnostic criteria for major depression are untreated or undertreated. Luckily, recent advances have finally made it possible for the field of public health to address mental health in the population. Public Health Perspectives on Depressive Disorders fills a gap by identifying the tools and strategies of public health practice and by exploring their application to twenty-first-century public mental health policy and practice.

By looking at depressive disorders through a public health lens, this book highlights the centrality of mental health to public health. Linking the available research on depressive illness at the population level with public mental health policy and practice, expert contributors set a research agenda that will help make mental health a central part of public health science and practice. This book is an invaluable resource for researchers and practitioners to develop, facilitate, and conduct pilot and feasibility studies of promising preventive and treatment interventions that might mitigate the progression toward major depression and other mental disorders among populations at risk.

The first part of the book underscores the public health significance of depressive illness by focusing on the evidence provided by recent approaches to nosology, epidemiology, illness burden, and impact on overall health. The second part looks at the social and environmental influences on depressive disorders that are critical to future efforts to prevent illness and to promote mentally healthy communities. The third and longest part addresses the vulnerability of diverse groups to depressive illness and underscore best practices to mitigate risk while improving both the preventive and therapeutic armamentaria.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781421422794
Publisher:	Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date:	08/29/2017
Pages:	456
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.30(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Neal L. Cohen, MD, is the senior medical advisor at the New York State Office of Mental Health. He previously served as New York City’s commissioner of health and mental health. A clinical professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and an adjunct professor at the NYU School of Medicine, he is the editor of Psychiatry Takes to the Streets: Outreach and Crisis Intervention for the Mentally Ill and the coeditor of Population Mental Health: Evidence, Policy, and Public Health Practice.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
1. The Path to the Public Health Recognition of Depressive Disorders, by Neal L. Cohen
Part I
2. Depressive Disorders, by Daniel C. Kopala-Sibley and Daniel Klein
3. The Burden of Depressive Illness, by David A. Kessler, Evelyn J. Bromet, Peter De Jonge, Victoria Shahly, and Marsha Ann Wilcox
4. The Burden of Comorbidity, by Sergio Anguilar-Gaxiola, Daniel Vicente Vigo, and Kate M. Scott
5. Substance Use and Depressive Disorders, by Jacquelyn L. Meyers and Deborah Hasin
Part II
6. The Social Epidemiology of Socioeconomic Inequalitiesin Depression, by Helen Cerigo and Amelie Quesnel-Vallee
7. Maternal Depression and the Intergenerational Transmission of Depression, by Constance Hammen
8. The Influence of Stigma for Depression Care, by J. Konadu Fokuo and Patrick W. Corrigan
Part III
9. Youth Depression, by Jennifer L. Hughes and Joan Asarnow
10. Understanding Adolescent Suicide, by Regina Miranda, Ana Ortin, Lillian Polanco-Roman, and Jorge Valderrama
11. Interrelationship of Suicidality with Depressive Disorders and Its Implications for Suicide Prevention Strategies at the Population and Individual Levels, by Beth Han, Wilson M. Compton, and Richard McKeon
12. Mindfulness-Based Approaches for Promoting Mental Health in Urban Youth, by Tamar Mendelson and April Joy Damian
13. Mindfulness-Based Approaches for Promoting Mental Health in Urban Youth, by Amelia R. Gavin and Rebecca Rebbe
14. Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Depressive Illness and Clinical Care, by Alfiee M. Breland-Noble and Jeanne Miranda
15 . Public Health Perspectives on Depression in Primary Care, by Trina Chang and Albert Yeung
16. A Twenty-First-Century Public Health Challenge and Opportunity, by Neal L. Cohen
17 . The Digital Revolution and Its Potential Impact on Detection and Treatment of Depressive Disorders, by Charles Platkin, Alissa Link, and Amy Kwan
18. Preventing the Onset of Depressive Disorders, by Pim Cuijpers
Index

What People are Saying About This

Ronald W. Manderscheid

A very comprehensive overview of depression, depression research, and treatment written by leading experts that includes emerging work on the social determinants of health and mindfulness.

From the Publisher

A very comprehensive overview of depression, depression research, and treatment written by leading experts that includes emerging work on the social determinants of health and mindfulness.
—Ronald W. Manderscheid, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, coeditor of Mental Health, United States, 2000

Editorial Reviews

Collecting work from an array of experts, Cohen (New York State Office of Mental Health) offers an excellent addition to the literature on mental health that examines depressive disorders from a public health and policy perspective. This book is well organized and fairly comprehensive.
—Choice

From the Publisher

Collecting work from an array of experts, Cohen (New York State Office of Mental Health) offers an excellent addition to the literature on mental health that examines depressive disorders from a public health and policy perspective. This book is well organized and fairly comprehensive.

Choice