SynthesisBMC public health2021
National or population level interventions addressing the social determinants of mental health - an umbrella review.
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Who cites it
21 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Effectiveness and Feasibility of Workplace-Based Mental Health Interventions for University Academic Staff: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Pooled it
- Preventing depression in high-income countries-A systematic review of studies evaluating change in social determinants.PloS one · 2025Pooled it
- The impact of assortative mating, participation bias and socioeconomic status on the polygenic risk of behavioural and psychiatric traits.Nature human behaviour · 2024Pooled it
- Addressing depression, stress, and hopelessness through an economic and relationship-strengthening intervention: Findings from a pilot randomized controlled trial among people with HIV in Malawi.Journal of affective disorders · 2026Trial
- Walkable neighborhoods are associated with lower psychological distress through device-measured physical activity: Evidence from the All of Us Research Program, United States.Preventive medicine · 2026Article
- Towards a new model of population mental health research and policy translation in the UK: establishing a National consortium.International journal of mental health systems · 2026Article
- The changing epidemiology of child and adolescent mental health requires an immediate policy response.Public health in practice (Oxford, England) · 2025Article
- Quantifying the impact of a large-scale opioid agonist treatment program on suicide prevention in New South Wales, Australia: A data-modeling study.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2025Article
- Assessing the economic case for public health interventions provided in non-health public sector settings: a feasibility study in job centres in Cornwall, South West of England.Discover mental health · 2025Article
- Rhetorics and Realities of Access in Community Mental Health Care.Nursing inquiry · 2025Article
- Reach, uptake, and psychological outcomes of two publicly funded internet-based cognitive behavioural therapy programs in Ontario, Canada: an observational study.International journal of mental health systems · 2024Article
- Association between maternal mental health-related hospitalisation in the 5 years prior to or during pregnancy and adverse birth outcomes: a population-based retrospective cohort data linkage study in the Northern Territory of Australia.The Lancet regional health. Western Pacific · 2024Article
- Exploring Mental Health Issues and Priorities in Indonesia Through Qualitative Expert Consensus.Clinical practice and epidemiology in mental health : CP & EMH · 2024Article
- Schizophrenia: A Review of Social Risk Factors That Affect Women.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Review of Major Social Determinants of Health in Schizophrenia-Spectrum Psychotic Disorders: I. Clinical Outcomes.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2023Review
- Recent Advances on Social Determinants of Mental Health: Looking Fast Forward.The American journal of psychiatry · 2023Review
- Sexual Minority Identities in Autistic Adults: Diversity and Associations with Mental Health Symptoms and Subjective Quality of Life.Autism in adulthood · 2023Article
- Social Isolation, Healthy Habits, Inequality and Mental Health in the United States.Applied research in quality of life · 2023Article
- Key Predictive Factors in the Mental Health of Chinese University Students at Home and Abroad.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Adverse childhood experiences and global mental health: avenues to reduce the burden of child and adolescent mental disorders.Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundSocial circumstances in which people live and work impact the population's mental health. We aimed to synthesise evidence identifying effective interventions and policies that influence the social determinants of mental health at national or scaled population level. We searched five databases (Cochrane Library, Global Health, MEDLINE, EMBASE and PsycINFO) between Jan 1st 2000 and July 23rd 2019 to identify systematic reviews of population-level interventions or policies addressing a recognised social determinant of mental health and collected mental health outcomes. There were no restrictions on country, sub-population or age. A narrative overview of results is provided. Quality assessment was conducted using Assessment of Multiple Systematic Reviews (AMSTAR 2). This study was registered on PROSPERO (CRD42019140198).
resultsWe identified 20 reviews for inclusion. Most reviews were of low or critically low quality. Primary studies were mostly observational and from higher income settings. Higher quality evidence indicates more generous welfare benefits may reduce socioeconomic inequalities in mental health outcomes. Lower quality evidence suggests unemployment insurance, warm housing interventions, neighbourhood renewal, paid parental leave, gender equality policies, community-based parenting programmes, and less restrictive migration policies are associated with improved mental health outcomes. Low quality evidence suggests restriction of access to lethal means and multi-component suicide prevention programmes are associated with reduced suicide risk.
conclusionThis umbrella review has identified a small and overall low-quality evidence base for population level interventions addressing the social determinants of mental health. There are significant gaps in the evidence base for key policy areas, which limit ability of national policymakers to understand how to effectively improve population mental health.
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