The social determinants of mental health and disorder: evidence, prevention and recommendations

🤖 Plain-English Summary

People exposed to more unfavourable social circumstances are more vulnerable to poor mental health over their life course, in ways that are often determined by structural factors which generate and perpetuate intergenerational cycles of disadvantage and poor health. Finally, we provide seven key recommendations, framed around social justice, which constitute a roadmap for action in research, policy and public health.

🔑 Key Findings

• Addressing these challenges is an imperative matter of social justice.
• In this paper we provide a roadmap to address the social determinants that cause mental ill health.
• Relying as far as possible on high-quality evidence, we first map out the literature that supports a causal link between social determinants and later mental health outcomes.

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