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A social determination framework for mental health.

Franco Mascayano1,2, María Teresa Muñoz-Quezada3, Alfonso Urzúa4

  • 1Department of Mental Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, 615 N Wolfe St, Room E1146, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA. fmascay1@jh.edu.

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Summary

Global mental health must address structural inequities, not just individual factors. A social determination approach, rooted in Latin American social medicine, offers a framework for research and policy to combat mental distress driven by globalization and colonialism.

Keywords:
Critical epidemiologyDecolonizationGlobal health equityLatin AmericaMental healthSocial determination of healthSocial medicine

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Area of Science:

  • Global Mental Health
  • Social Medicine
  • Decolonial Approaches

Background:

  • Current global mental health practices overemphasize individual risk factors and biomedical treatments.
  • Structural forces like globalization, colonialism, and neoliberal reforms are often overlooked as drivers of mental health inequities.
  • There is a need for more socially embedded and decolonial perspectives in mental health research and policy.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To critique reductionist frameworks in mental health that fragment structural causation.
  • To articulate a social determination approach for mental health research and practice.
  • To demonstrate how participatory and mixed-method research can support transformative, community-led responses.

Main Methods:

  • Drawing on Latin American traditions of social medicine, particularly Jaime Breilh's paradigm of social determination of health.
  • Critiquing reductionist frameworks that depoliticize structural causation into lists of risk factors.
  • Emphasizing multi-level embodiment of power relations, historical-political organization of social life, and structural drivers in institutions and policies.

Main Results:

  • Illustrative vignettes from Latin America demonstrate how historically structured processes become embodied as mental distress.
  • These processes link global political economy, institutional arrangements, and everyday social relations.
  • Participatory and mixed-method research can document these dynamics and support community-led responses.

Conclusions:

  • Adopting a social determination lens can reorient global mental health policy and scholarship toward structural justice.
  • This approach aligns with international calls to decolonize and politicize mental health research.
  • It emphasizes collective agency and praxis in addressing mental distress.