Public Mental Health and the COVID-19 pandemic

John Ashton

doi:10.1017/ipm.2021.16

Public Mental Health and the COVID-19 pandemic

John Ashton

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Abstract

COVID-19 has presented society with a public health threat greater than any in living memory, leaving us to question almost every aspect of our society. An ever increasing concern is how we protect the global population from mental illness and whether public mental health policies can achieve this. In this article I reflect on the history of mental health service development, and furthermore on how COVID-19 might impact on the delivery of public mental health strategies into the future.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	9-12
Number of pages	4
Journal	Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine
Volume	40
Issue number	1
Early online date	15 Feb 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/ipm.2021.16
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 15 Feb 2021
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

COVID-19
History
Public mental health
Service development

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