Includes bibliographic references and index.

Population mental health : evidence, policy, and public health practice / Neal L. Cohen, Sandro Galea -- The burden of mental illness worldwide / Ronald C. Kessler ... [et al.] -- Epidemiology in public mental health / Ezra Susser, Rebecca P. Smith -- Social and environmental influences on population mental health / Emily Goldmann, Sandro Galea -- Disparities in mental health status and care in the U.S. / Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola ... [et al.] -- The particular role of stigma / Patrick W. Corrigan, Dror Ben-Zeev -- Social policy and the American mental health system of care / David Mechanic, Gerald N. Grob -- Legislating social policy : mental illness, the community, and the law / John Petrila, Jeffrey Swanson -- Community rights, recovery, and advocacy / David Roe, Kim T. Mueser --

"No health without mental health" : the global effort to improve population mental health / Mark Tomlinson, Leslie Swartz, Karen Daniels -- Mental health service utilization in the US : history and present / Benjamin G. Druss, Philip S. Wang, Ronald C. Kessler -- Public health approaches to improving population mental health : a local government perspective on integrating mental health promotion into general public health practice / Adam Karpati -- Realizing the possibilities of school mental health across the public health continuum / Carrie Mills, Maura Mulloy, Mark Weist -- Healthy aging and mental health : a public health challenge for the 21st century / Marianne C. Fahs, William Cabin, William T. Gallo -- Protecting urban families from community violence / Neal L. Cohen -- Public health approaches to suicidality / Eric D. Caine, Kerry L. Knox, Yeates Conwell -- 21st century public health practice : preventing mental illness and promoting mental health / Neal L. Cohen, Sandro Galea.