A Population Health Framework for Inner-City Mental Health

Authors: Strike, C.; Goering, P.; Wasylenki, D.

Source: Journal of Urban Health: Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, Volume 79, Supplement 1, December 2002 , pp. S13-S20(8)

Publisher: Springer

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Abstract:

Dealing with mental health problems in the inner city presents a major challenge to planners and service providers. Traditional mental health service-oriented interventions often prove ineffective due to the complexity of individuals' needs. This article argues that a population health framework can be used to identify critical risk and protective factors and facilitate more effective, upstream, population-based interventions for mental health problems in the inner city. A community report card is seen as a useful measure of key indicators at any point in time and of changes over time at the community or neighborhood level. A number of issues with regard to report card development are identified and discussed, as is the process of creating a report card, including key domains and the organization of findings.

Document Type: Original article

Affiliations: 1: Drs. Strike, Goering, and Wasylenki are with the Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto; Drs. Strike and Goering are with the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto.

Publication date: 2002-12-01