Creating a mentally healthy society: lessons from a cross‐border rural mental health project in Ireland

Abstract

Public mental health can be described as the science, politics and art of creating a mentally healthy society. This paper discusses these three concepts with reference to the literature as the necessary components of any strategy or programme to create, promote and maintain mental well‐being at a community and population level. It goes on to describe how they were applied in a cross‐border rural mental health project in Ireland.

Citation

Barry, M. (2005), "Creating a mentally healthy society: lessons from a cross‐border rural mental health project in Ireland", Journal of Public Mental Health, Vol. 4 No. 1, pp. 30-34. https://doi.org/10.1108/17465729200500008