Population approach
The benefits of improving the mental health of the whole population are based on a familiar public health model. Just as we know that a small reduction in the overall consumption of alcohol among the whole population results in a reduction in alcohol related harm, so a small improvement in population wide levels of wellbeing will reduce the prevalence of mental illness, as well as bringing the benefits associated with positive mental health:
The benefits of improving the mental health of the whole population are based on a familiar public health model. Just as we know that a small reduction in the overall consumption of alcohol among the whole population results in a reduction in alcohol related harm, so a small improvement in population wide levels of wellbeing will reduce the prevalence of mental illness, as well as bringing the benefits associated with positive mental health:
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| Population approach |
• by reducing the mean number of psychological symptoms in the population,
many more individuals would cross the threshold to become flourishing;
• a small shift in the mean of symptoms or risk factors would result in a decrease in the number of people in both the languishing and mental illness tail of the distribution
many more individuals would cross the threshold to become flourishing;
• a small shift in the mean of symptoms or risk factors would result in a decrease in the number of people in both the languishing and mental illness tail of the distribution
