Dinesh Bhugra is an Emeritus Professor of Mental Health and Cultural Diversity at the Health Service and Population Research Department, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.Kamaldeep Bhui is a Professor of Cultural Psychiatry & Epidemiology at the Centre for Psychiatry, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Barts and The London, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.Samuel Yeung Shan Wong is Associate Director at the School of Public Health and Primary Care, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.Stephen E. Gilman is Associate Professor in the Departments of Social & Behavioral Sciences and Epidemiology at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.

This book is modern and includes up-to-date topics of interest such as terrorism an internet-based interventions ... It is a good introduction to the topic for public health practitioners/trainees; this is necessary as there seem to be few textbooks on this topic.

• Dinesh Bhugra: Introduction Section 1: Background and general principles 1: Sarah Stewart-Brown: Principles of public health: Application to public mental health 2: Ruth Bell and Michael Marmot: Social inequalities and mental health 3: Anita Patel: Economic costs of mental illness 4: Alize J. Ferrari, Holly E. Erskine, Fiona J. Charlson, Damian F. Santomauro, Janni Leung, and Harvey A. Whiteford: The global burden of mental and substance use disorders: A review of methods, findings and applications of data from the Global Burden of Disease study 5: Kwame McKenzie: Models of causation of mental illness 6: Edward Shaw and Daniel J. Smith: Genetic influences across the age span 7: Joshua Moses and Robert Whitley: Public mental health and anthropology: An ecological approach 8: Tom K. J. Craig: Social factors and mental health 9: Jennifer Dykxhoorn and James Kirkbride: The epidemiological burden of major psychiatric disorders 10: Felix J. Rosenberg and Daniel Miranda: Critical epidemiology 11: Angelo d'Errico and Giuseppe Costa: Occupational epidemiology 12: Katie Blissard Barnes and Max Henderson: Public mental health and occupational health 13: Hideki Hashimoto and Norito Kawakami: Health equity Section 2: Evidence 14: Kwame McKenzie: Social capital and mental health 15: Felicia A. Huppert and Kai Ruggeri: Controversies in well-being: Confronting and resolving the challenges 16: Mel Bartley: Unemployment and mental health 17: Tom K. J. Craig and Jed Boardman: Housing and mental health 18: M. Harvey Brenner: Social class and mental health: The impact of international recession and austerity 19: Kamaldeep Bhui: The social determinants of mental health 20: Syed Masud Ahmed and Mohammad Didar Hossain: Social determinants in low income countries 21: Mike McHugh: Mental and physical health 22: Skye P. Barbic and Stefan J. Cano: Clinical outcome assessment in mental health 23: Paulo Amarante and Eduardo Torre: Environmental contaminants and mental health: The chemicalization of life as a matter of violation of the right to health and renewal of the disease industry Section 3: Special groups 24: Fasli Sidheek, Veena A. Satyanarayana, and Geetha Desai: Family, marriage, and mental health 25: Kenneth L. Appelbaum: Prisoners and mental health 26: Martin Plöderl, Lieselotte Mahler, Timo O. Nieder, and Götz Mundle: LGBTI and mental health 27: Richard Montoro: Sexual minority adolescents and mental health 28: Jessica L. Plauché and Bennett L. Leventhal: Children and adolescents 29: Linda Chiu Wa Lam and Wai Chi Chan: Recognising mental health problems in the ageing community 30: Sabyasachi Bhaumik, Dasari Mohan Michael, Reza Kiani, Avinash Hiremath, Shweta Gangavati and Amala Jesu: Mental health in intellectual disability 31: Niels Okkels, Christina Blanner Kristiansen, and Povl Munk-Jørgensen: Physical and psychiatric comorbidity 32: Vishal Bhavsar, Shuo Zhang, and Dinesh Bhugra: Globalization, migration, and mental health: A conceptual model for health research 33: Giulia Cossu, Antonio Preti, and Mauro Carta: Treatment of mental health problems in refugees and asylum seekers 34: Dexing Zhang and Samuel Yeung Shan Wong: Lifestyle 35: William Gilmore, Katherine Brown, and Ian Gilmore: Prevention approaches to reduce alcohol-related harm 36: Patricia Conrod and Olive Mukamana: Prevention of drug addiction 37: Joseph Lau, Jinghua Li, Rui She, and Yoo Na Kim: Implications of the global mental health and HIV syndemic on HIV prevention and care 38: Lakshmi Vijayakumar and Morton Silverman: Suicide and the prevention of suicidal behaviours 39: Danuta Wasserman, Miriam Iosue, and Vladimir Carli: Suicidal behaviour among adolescents: Risk and protective factors and universal evidence-based suicide prevention programmes Section 4: Interventions: Types and places 40: Stephen Scott: Parenting skills and promotion of mental health over the lifespan 41: Philip Boyce, Megan Galbally, and Alain Gregoire: Pregnancy: The earliest opportunity for prevention and early intervention for mental disorders 42: Katherine Weare: Promoting mental health and well-being: What can schools do? 43: David J. Castle, Ana Lusicic, and Melissa Petrakis: Early intervention in psychiatry 44: Petra C. Gronholm, Claire Henderson, Tanya Deb, and Graham Thornicroft: Anti-stigma interventions: Theory and evidence 45: Susan L. Fletcher, Sandra K. Davidson, and Jane M. Gunn: Managing stress 46: Roger M. K. Ng and Che Kin Lee: Psychological intervention as a measure for promoting public mental health: Is it a white elephant? 47: Ursula Werneke and Ingvar A. Bergdahl: Diet, environment, and mental health 48: Mirai Chatterjee: Mental health and its social determinants: Some experiences of the Self-Employed Women s Association (SEWA) in India 49: Carmen Wong, Wai Ching Ng, Hua Zhong, and Anne Scully Hill: Interpersonal violence 50: T. A. Supraja, D. Padmavathy, and Prabha Chandra: Poverty and interpersonal violence 51: Marguerite Regan, Jenny Edwards, and Iris Elliott: NGOs and mental health 52: Kamaldeep Bhui: Public health and terrorism 53: Sarah Stewart-Brown: Resilience and wellbeing 54: Christopher C. H. Cook and Nathan H. White: Resilience and the role of spirituality 55: Annisa Lee and Stephan Hyeonjun Stiller: Innovations in the area of social media 56: Maryann Waugh, Matthew Mishkind, and Jay H. Shore: Telemental health: A public mental health perspective 57: Laura Shields, Soumitra Pathare, Pallavi Karnatak, and Keshav Desiraju: Policy and public mental health in low and middle income countries 58: Sarah Stewart-Brown: Managing research and evaluation for public mental health 59: David M. Ndetei, Christine W. Musyimi, Erick S. Nandoya, Lydia Matoke, and Victoria N. Mutiso: Working with traditional healers to reduce mental health treatment gap in low and middle income countries Section 5: Conclusions 60: Dinesh Bhugra, Kamaldeep Bhui, Samuel Yeung Shan Wong, and Stephen Gilman: Conclusion