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KMID : 1022120190210010121
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Health and Welfare
2019 Volume.21 No. 1 p.121 ~ p.148
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Studies on "Mental Health" in Public Health Research
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Lim Eun-Chung
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Abstract
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The use of 'mental health' is increasing in the field of health care. Clearly, the target has broadened from the patients to the population, but an empirical analysis is needed on what aspects of mental health are concerned. This study analyzed 216 articles published in the field of public health by December 2016, seeking to show dispersion represented by number of articles published and perspectives by scales used to measure mental health according to academic disciplines and the timing of publication. The results of this study are as follows. First, the major areas were nursing science, social welfare, preventive medicine/occupational and environmental medicine, and psychiatry. Second, the overall number of articles was increasing, and the trend by disciplines has changed since 2010. Third, there were two methods to measure mental health, using one scale and combining variables. In general, the former showed diseases-focused model, while the latter symptom-focused perspective. Fourth, diseases-focused model was predominant in nursing science and social welfare, and symptom-focused perspective in sociology and social science. Fifth, there was a tendency for symptom-focused perspective to increase. As a result, the change of perspective depends on the variation in the number of publications of each academic discipline, maintaining the characteristics of each. This study can provide base line data to narrow the distance of the starting point in cooperation with each other by showing the gap of perspectives.
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KEYWORD
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Mental health, Medical model, Sociological perspectives, Literature research
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