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Preventive Global Mental Health—A Balance of Policies and Practices

JAMA Psychiatry 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2025.3695

December 10, 2025 at 11:00 AM EST

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This Viewpoint describes a global research, policy, and practice shift away from individual disease models of mental health toward culturally competent, ecosocial, and syndemic preventive approaches that take account of complex systems.

Corresponding Author: Kamaldeep Bhui, CBE, MD, Academic Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 7JX, United Kingdom (kam.bhui@psych.ox.ac.uk).

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