Mental Health is our Collective Wealth:

A Discussion Paper (2 April 2003)
M. McCubbin, R. Labonte, R.B. Sullivan, & B. Dallaire. Submitted by R. Labonte to the Federal/Provincial/Territorial Advisory Network
on Mental Health, and Health Canada
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This paper introduces readers to population mental health issues. First, we present a simple framework for Population Mental Health, showing improving mental health status as a function of individual capacities, environmental supports, and equity in the distribution of environmental supports. Also, we explain how the mental health of individuals depends not only on themselves, but also on their environments: ecological, social, political, economic.
Next follows key “pathways to population mental health”, with suggested actions ¾ often implicating decision-makers outside the mental health or health systems ¾ to improve the mental health of our society. Here is a selection of such actions