Primary prevention of mental, neurological and psychosocial disorders

Overview

This book is intended to serve primarily as a handy reference book for policy-makers and professionals within and outside the medical sector who are in a position to help prevent mental, neurological and psychosocial disorders. As the book makes clear, primary prevention is not purely a medical matter - far from it. The contribution of doctors, nurses, midwives and other health workers is obviously extremely important, but vital preventive work can be carried out by lawmakers, governments departments, the police, administrators, educators, civic organizations (particularly women's organizations), engineers and many others It is hoped that the book will encourage all these groups to intensify their efforts to prevent the disorders discussed here and tackle the root causes of other disorders using a similar approach.