Table of Contents

1. Social Policy and Mental Health Care 2.The Burden of Mental Illness Worldwide 3. The New Epidemiology of Mental Illness 4. Social and Environmental Influences on Urban Mental Health 5. Disparities in Mental Health/Mental Illness and Care 6. Socio-cultural Perspectives on Stigma 7. Mental Illness, the Community, and the Law 8. The Quest for Parity in Mental Health Benefits 9. Consumer Rights, Advocacy, and Recovery 10. Young Children 11. Youth 12. Older People 13. Community Violence and Urban Families 14. Homelessness and the Mentally Ill 15. Suicide 16. The Interrelatedness of Physical and Mental Well-Being 17. Preventing Mental Illness and Promoting Mental Health

About the Author

Neal Cohen is Distinguished Lecturer at the CUNY School of Public Health at Hunter College and the Hunter College School of Social Work in New York City. Dr. Cohen previously served as New York City's Commissioner of Health and Commissioner of the Department of Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Alcoholism Services. Sandro Galea is the Anna Cheskis Gelman and Murray Charles Gelman Professor and Chair of the Department of Epidemiology at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Dr. Galea's research is concerned with the social and biological determinants of the mental health of populations.