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Mental Health Promotion

Mental health promotion includes promoting positive mental health messages for all and particularly those most disadvantaged, enabling individual contribution to community goal achievements and coping with normal life stresses

Whakapakari Oranga Hinengaro (Mental Health Promotion)

Mental health promotion includes:

  • Promoting positive mental health messages for all and particularly those most disadvantaged
  • Enabling individual contribution to community goal achievements
  • Coping with normal life stresses

Key areas of Public Health South’s mental health promotion:

  • Reducing stigma and discrimination
  • Reducing the incidence of violence
  • Increasing resilience and social connectedness