The Social Determinants of Mental Health: Definitions, Distinctions, and Dimensions for Professional Case Management: Part 1

Conclusion: Access to quality wholistic health care encompasses pathophysiology, psychopathology, and psychosocial circumstances, and is a considerable challenge across populations. Mental health, along with health disparities, has been fueled by enduring systematic racism that has facilitated inadequate funding, poor reimbursement, decreased treatment options, and pervasive stigma across diverse patient populations (e.g., race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, familial status, disability, socioeconomic status). These SDoMH mandate a critical fresh lens by case management to ensure the most proactive and comprehensive approach to care. To achieve the successful outcomes mandated by this approach, the industry's quality compass, the Triple/Quadruple Aim must be expanded to include a Quintile Aim of wholistic health equity. Implications for Case Management Practice: Case management's unique transdisciplinary composition has the workforce well positioned to effect grand change in population health perspectives. Wider attention to clinical and fiscal outcomes for health and mental health inequities mandates innovative approaches to patient care, which encompass a wholistic health triad of pathophysiology, psychopathology, and psychosocial circumstances.
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