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Dealing with mental health problems in the inner city presents a major challenge to planners and service providers. Traditional mental health service-oriented interventions often prove ineffective due to the complexity of individual's needs. This article argues that a population health framework can be used to identify critical risk and protective factors and facilitate more effective, upstream, population-based interventions for mental health problems in the inner city. A community report card is seen as a useful measure of key indicators at any point in time and of changes over time at the community or neighborhood level. A number of issues with regard to report card development are identified and discussed, as is the process of creating a report card, including key domains and the organization of findings.
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Strike, C., Goering, P. & Wasylenki, D. A population health framework for inner-city mental health. J Urban Health 79 (Suppl 1), S13–S20 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1093/jurban/79.suppl_1.S13
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