Introduction, Dinesh Bhugra
Section 1: Background and general principles
1: Principles of public health: Application to public mental health, Sarah Stewart-Brown
2: Social inequalities and mental health, Ruth Bell and Michael Marmot
3: Economic costs of mental illness, Anita Patel
4: The global burden of mental and substance use disorders: A review of methods, findings and applications of data from the Global Burden of Disease study, Alize J. Ferrari, Holly E. Erskine, Fiona J. Charlson, Damian F. Santomauro, Janni Leung, and Harvey A. Whiteford
5: Models of causation of mental illness, Kwame McKenzie
6: Genetic influences across the age span, Edward Shaw and Daniel J. Smith
7: Public mental health and anthropology: An ecological approach, Joshua Moses and Robert Whitley
8: Social factors and mental health, Tom K. J. Craig
9: The epidemiological burden of major psychiatric disorders, Jennifer Dykxhoorn and James Kirkbride
10: Critical epidemiology, Felix J. Rosenberg and Daniel Miranda
11: Occupational epidemiology, Angelo d'Errico and Giuseppe Costa
12: Public mental health and occupational health, Katie Blissard Barnes and Max Henderson
13: Health equity, Hideki Hashimoto and Norito Kawakami
Section 2: Evidence
14: Social capital and mental health, Kwame McKenzie
15: Controversies in well-being: Confronting and resolving the challenges, Felicia A. Huppert and Kai Ruggeri
16: Unemployment and mental health, Mel Bartley
17: Housing and mental health, Tom K. J. Craig and Jed Boardman
18: Social class and mental health: The impact of international recession and austerity, M. Harvey Brenner
19: The social determinants of mental health, Kamaldeep Bhui
20: Social determinants in low income countries, Syed Masud Ahmed and Mohammad Didar Hossain
21: Mental and physical health, Mike McHugh
22: Clinical outcome assessment in mental health, Skye P. Barbic and Stefan J. Cano
23: Environmental contaminants and mental health: The chemicalization of life as a matter of violation of the right to health and renewal of the disease industry, Paulo Amarante and Eduardo Torre
Section 3: Special groups
24: Family, marriage, and mental health, Fasli Sidheek, Veena A. Satyanarayana, and Geetha Desai
25: Prisoners and mental health, Kenneth L. Appelbaum
26: LGBTI and mental health, Martin Plöderl, Lieselotte Mahler, Timo O. Nieder, and Götz Mundle
27: Sexual minority adolescents and mental health, Richard Montoro
28: Children and adolescents, Jessica L. Plauché and Bennett L. Leventhal
29: Recognising mental health problems in the ageing community, Linda Chiu Wa Lam and Wai Chi Chan
30: Mental health in intellectual disability, Sabyasachi Bhaumik, Dasari Mohan Michael, Reza Kiani, Avinash Hiremath, Shweta Gangavati and Amala Jesu
31: Physical and psychiatric comorbidity, Niels Okkels, Christina Blanner Kristiansen, and Povl Munk-Jørgensen
32: Globalization, migration, and mental health: A conceptual model for health research, Vishal Bhavsar, Shuo Zhang, and Dinesh Bhugra
33: Treatment of mental health problems in refugees and asylum seekers, Giulia Cossu, Antonio Preti, and Mauro Carta
34: Lifestyle, Dexing Zhang and Samuel Yeung Shan Wong
35: Prevention approaches to reduce alcohol-related harm, William Gilmore, Katherine Brown, and Ian Gilmore
36: Prevention of drug addiction, Patricia Conrod and Olive Mukamana
37: Implications of the global mental health and HIV syndemic on HIV prevention and care, Joseph Lau, Jinghua Li, Rui She, and Yoo Na Kim
38: Suicide and the prevention of suicidal behaviours, Lakshmi Vijayakumar and Morton Silverman
39: Suicidal behaviour among adolescents: Risk and protective factors and universal evidence-based suicide prevention programmes, Danuta Wasserman, Miriam Iosue, and Vladimir Carli
Section 4: Interventions: Types and places
40: Parenting skills and promotion of mental health over the lifespan, Stephen Scott
41: Pregnancy: The earliest opportunity for prevention and early intervention for mental disorders, Philip Boyce, Megan Galbally, and Alain Gregoire
42: Promoting mental health and well-being: What can schools do?, Katherine Weare
43: Early intervention in psychiatry, David J. Castle, Ana Lusicic, and Melissa Petrakis
44: Anti-stigma interventions: Theory and evidence, Petra C. Gronholm, Claire Henderson, Tanya Deb, and Graham Thornicroft
45: Managing stress, Susan L. Fletcher, Sandra K. Davidson, and Jane M. Gunn
46: Psychological intervention as a measure for promoting public mental health: Is it a white elephant?, Roger M. K. Ng and Che Kin Lee
47: Diet, environment, and mental health, Ursula Werneke and Ingvar A. Bergdahl
48: Mental health and its social determinants: Some experiences of the Self-Employed Women s Association (SEWA) in India, Mirai Chatterjee
49: Interpersonal violence, Carmen Wong, Wai Ching Ng, Hua Zhong, and Anne Scully Hill
50: Poverty and interpersonal violence, T. A. Supraja, D. Padmavathy, and Prabha Chandra
51: NGOs and mental health, Marguerite Regan, Jenny Edwards, and Iris Elliott
52: Public health and terrorism, Kamaldeep Bhui
53: Resilience and wellbeing, Sarah Stewart-Brown
54: Resilience and the role of spirituality, Christopher C. H. Cook and Nathan H. White
55: Innovations in the area of social media, Annisa Lee and Stephan Hyeonjun Stiller
56: Telemental health: A public mental health perspective, Maryann Waugh, Matthew Mishkind, and Jay H. Shore
57: Policy and public mental health in low and middle income countries, Laura Shields, Soumitra Pathare, Pallavi Karnatak, and Keshav Desiraju
58: Managing research and evaluation for public mental health, Sarah Stewart-Brown
59: Working with traditional healers to reduce mental health treatment gap in low and middle income countries, David M. Ndetei, Christine W. Musyimi, Erick S. Nandoya, Lydia Matoke, and Victoria N. Mutiso
Section 5: Conclusions
60: Conclusion, Dinesh Bhugra, Kamaldeep Bhui, Samuel Yeung Shan Wong, and Stephen Gilman