NEW ORLEANS — Mental health services are only a small part of public health psychiatry, according to presenters here at the American Psychiatry Association annual meeting.
“Public health psychiatry is what we do collectively as a society to assure conditions for people to be mentally healthy,” said Kenneth Stewart Thompson, MD.
He spoke as part of a panel delivering a report from the APA’s Social Determinants of Mental Health Task Force.
Panelist Sanya Virani, MD, MPH, explained that social determinants of mental health are societal problems that impede achieving optimal