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1 | P a g eMental Health and Resilience

2 | P a g eTable of ContentsAbstract.................................................................................................................................................2Introduction...........................................................................................................................................2Determinants of mental health.............................................................................................................3Health Promotion..................................................................................................................................4Resilience...............................................................................................................................................6Significance of resilience....................................................................................................................8Conclusion.............................................................................................................................................8References...........................................................................................................................................10

3 | P a g eAbstractMental health is the positive dimension that needs to be considered for maintaining the health. Health is characterised by complete mental, physical and social well-being of an individual. It focuses on changing targets among people and making health a priority in the society by creating innovative opportunities. The report explores the determinants of mental health and various promotion strategies used. Health promotion is a process to improve the health by improving economic, political, spiritually or organizational initiative. Therefore, it requires a close co-operation with health- care sector reflecting the diversity. Government hasa unique responsibility of ensuring that environment beyond one’s control becomes conductive to health. Apart from that resilience is a mechanism which help people to improvetheir mental health by adopting good treatment option. Improving mental health is the major goal that enables people to cope with the adversity and remove the inequalities. IntroductionFor wellbeing heath is important part but good mental health is a major concern. Nowadays individuals are suffering from many mental disorders due to social and economic factor in the society. Mental disorder in the society arises due to social inequalities. This can be reduced by taking proper actions to improve the mental conditions and behaviour of the society. It is necessary that actions are taken to enhance every day’s lifestyle in order to enhance mental health (Segal, Qualls and Smyer, 2018). The root of mental disorders is poverty, discrimination in the society or lack of social support. Various facilities and institutions could improve the mental health condition by providing education, social care services or empowerment. These arrangements somewhere impact in improving the mental health to some extent (Travis, 2014). Risk of mental disorders are at various levels it may affect only an individual, entire family or at the population level. Various policies are

4 | P a g edesigned by government to reduce determinates of mental health and improve the outcomes. Social determinants can be improved by providing empowerment in the community and removing the discrimination (Allen, et. al , 2014). Mental disorders can arise in any age group in early childhood, adults or at working stage. It improves the mental health by reducing the risk of mental disorders that are due to inequalities in the society. Mental disorders somewhere affect the physical conditions of an individual (Compton and Shim, 2015).Determinants of mental healthMental health is defined by World Health Organisation as a state of individual in which they build their own potential to cope up with the life stress and provide a healthy contribution to the society. There are various determinants of mental health in the society which focuses on inequalities. Thus strategies are developed to improve the conditions of an individual by removing the discrimination on the basis of caste, creed or colour. It is researched that mental health arises due poverty, stress or inequality (Meyer, Castro and Aguilar, 2014). These people practice less favourable social, economic and environmental conditions in their life and have access to less support. These disadvantages may start before their birth and tend to accrue throughout the entire life. Protection of human from this state ofmind minimizes the disabilities and helps in promoting rapid recovery from illness. The initiatives implemented provide various plans that remove social injustice and inequality barriers from the society. It promotes models to improve the social determinants of mental health and helps in building sustainable plans by linking the society and government to improve health conditions. Mental determinates can be improved by improving the health behaviour and enhancing the social behaviour.

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