Preventing Depression and Promoting Mental Health in Young Australians

Public Health
Student’s Details-
7/26/2019

Executive Summary
Public health is an important aspect of healthcare management. Public health involves
improvement in the health of a specific group or population. There is growing importance of
public health as it aims at protecting and improving health and wellbeing of individuals. There
are various public health initiatives are taken by World Health Organization to keep people safe
and healthy from diseases. However, depression is a common mental disease which can be
dangerous the affected individuals. Therefore, public health is important in overcoming the
depression and reducing a level of depression through various intervention programs. The results
of public health ensure an overall improvement in the mental and physical wellbeing of the
individuals. It also helps in gaining information regarding different illnesses existing in the
people and taking remedial action to remove the same.

Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................4
Understanding depression within young Australians......................................................................4
Issue of gender and human rights................................................................................................5
An intervention to prevent depression and promote mental health.................................................5
Psychotherapy..............................................................................................................................6
Socio-ecological model................................................................................................................6
Individual..................................................................................................................................7
Relationship..............................................................................................................................7
Community...............................................................................................................................7
Societal.....................................................................................................................................7
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................7
References........................................................................................................................................9