SOCIAL CONTEXT OF MENTAL HEALTH WELL BEING
Good mental health is integral to human health and well-being. A person’s mental health and many common mental disorders are shaped by various social, economic, and physical environments operating at different stages of life. Risk factors for many common mental disorders are heavily associated with social inequalities, whereby the greater the inequality the higher the inequality in risk.
Man is social animal and we can’t think of an individual living without the social context in the contemporary era. Families are essential for social cohesion, the socialization of children and individual well-being; they are the base from which children and adults can learn, work, and contribute to society. An individual brought up has come across various phases and there are primary institutes which perform their due role in its upbringing and the institutes initiated with Family.
Family is the first laboratory of a child where Dos and Don’ts of the social system were taught, and full efforts were made to turnout this child into be a socialize person with a productive roles and responsibilities into the future. At this stage, positive mental outlook, personality development exercise is performed because from here this individual come out to face the social realities of the life and it is expected to behave and cope it with acceptable and according to social sentiments. The family has a massive impact on the child personality development and if disrupt familial brought up with errors is made here it leave impacts on the child personality. in our settings strong joint family system have greater impact on the strong bond and support but unfortunately due to contemporary changes and weakening of family system drive the subject of mental illness or rise.
Culture play a pivotal part in the development of human. Culture is a strong part of people’s lives. It influences their views, their values, their humor, their hopes, their loyalties, and their worries and fears. So, when you are working with people and building relationships with them, it helps to have some perspective and understanding of their cultures. It is the existing culture which teaches/trained us how to behave, respond, build rapport/relationship and social interaction, adaptability to cultural values and we can’t groom and adjust into the environment without knowing and adopting to the cultural circumstances. We have rich cultural diversity and values which adjust people with different languages, cultural values, social norms and keep the human bond united. but as a breakage in strong system arises we are on way of weakening cultural impact and various problems occurs.
The fundamental purpose of health care is to enhance quality of life by enhancing health. Healthcare is important to the society because people get ill, accidents and emergencies do arise, and the hospitals are needed to diagnose, treat and manage different types of ailments and diseases. A multilevel framework for understanding social determinants of mental disorders can be applied to strategies and interventions to reduce mental disorders and promote mental well-being. These areas are important for two reasons: they influence the risk of mental disorders; and they present opportunities for intervening to reduce risk.
Life-course: Prenatal, Pregnancy and perinatal periods, early childhood, adolescence, working and family building years, older ages all related also to gender; Parents, families, and households: parenting behaviors/attitudes; material conditions (income, access to resources, food/nutrition, water, sanitation, housing, employment), employment conditions and unemployment, parental physical and mental health, pregnancy and maternal care, social support; Community: neighborhood trust and safety, community based participation, violence/crime, attributes of the natural and built environment, neighborhood deprivation; Local services: early years care and education provision, schools, youth/adolescent services, health care, social services, clean water and sanitation; Country level factors: poverty reduction, inequality, discrimination, governance, human rights, armed conflict, national policies to promote access to education, employment, health care, housing and services proportionate to need, social protection policies that are universal and proportionate to need.
Social relationships — both quantity and quality — affect mental health, health behavior, physical health, and mortality risk. Social isolation of otherwise healthy, well-functioning individuals eventually results in psychological and physical disintegration. Stigma can pervade the lives of people with mental health problems in many ways. According to Corrigan (2004), it “diminishes self-esteem and robs people of social opportunities”.
in the context of my homeland and city all the above-mentioned factors pave ways for the rise of mental health issues and these are the developments aspects which contribute to the healthy development of a person.
