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Task Force report: The macroenviroment and community mental health

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The U.S. President's Commission on Mental Health (1978) has called for a broader conception of mental health and the factors that influence it. The “macro”-social environment is emerging as one area of concern. The influence of two macroenvironmental domains, the physical and economic, on several areas of human functioning is documented in this article. Topics in the physical domain include noise and crowding; and in the economic domain, socio-economic status, unemployment, and economic change. The implications of this research for community mental health practice is described.

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Monahan, J., Vaux, A. Task Force report: The macroenviroment and community mental health. Community Ment Health J 16, 14–26 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00780664

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