Mental Health Promotion
Mental Health Promotion - Pai te Hinengaro Pai te Ora
Interventions focus on strengthening protective factors for mental health and reducing risk factors at an individual, organisational, community, structural and policy level.
Mental health promotion includes:
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Promoting positive mental health among the general population, and particularly among those people who are most disadvantaged
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Ensuring that people with experience of mental illness have the same opportunities as everyone else to fully participate in society and everyday life
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Suicide prevention
Locally, mental health promotion programmes aim to:
Social connectedness affects mental health and physical health and is important both for individuals and communities.
Violence is a key determinant of mental health and includes bullying, family violence and community violence.
Community-level suicide prevention includes activities such as mental health awareness campaigns, encouraging appropriate media reporting of suicide and advocacy for restricting access to means of suicide.
Click here to access the Health Promotion page of Like Minds Mental Health Sector Directory
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