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Global Mental Health

Global mental health is the field of study, research, and practice concerned with improving mental health and achieving equity in mental healthcare for all populations worldwide. It addresses the large and unevenly distributed burden of mental, neurological, and substance-use disorders, the treatment gap that leaves…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 9 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 33× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2641-4538 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Global mental health is the field of study, research, and practice concerned with improving mental health and achieving equity in mental healthcare for all populations worldwide. It addresses the large and unevenly distributed burden of mental, neurological, and substance-use disorders, the treatment gap that leaves many people without care, and the social determinants, including poverty, discrimination, violence, and displacement, that shape psychological wellbeing. A central aim is to reduce disparities across countries and groups while respecting cultural context in how distress is understood and treated. The research gathered here reflects these priorities. Several studies examine populations at elevated risk or facing inequity, including mental health disparities among LGBTQ+ youth, depression linked to discrimination and violence among minority students, and the psychological consequences of intimate-partner and gender-related violence. Service and intervention research is represented by work on suicide prevention and treatment approaches and on the collection of global opinion data to inform mental-health promotion. Other contributions consider mental health across the life course and in specific contexts, from the wellbeing of older people to the support needs of partners of veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder and the quality-of-life impact of chronic conditions. Together these works present global mental health as an equity-focused, context-sensitive discipline aimed at understanding determinants of distress and extending effective, culturally appropriate care across diverse populations.

Research published in this journal

9 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

2018

The Health of Older People in Switzerland

P ChastonayCorresponding author
Department of Medicine, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland.
Public Health International Cited by 12 doi:10.14302/issn.2641-4538.jphi-18-2426

How this research is being cited

The 9 articles above have been cited 33 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Global Mental Health, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Public Health International (ISSN 2641-4538).

Journal editorial board
Javad Javan-Noughabi · United Kingdom Evelyn O Talbott · United States Zainab Taha · United Arab Emirates

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