Dinesh Bhugra: Introduction Section 1: Background and general principles 1: Sarah Stewart-Brown: Principles of public health: Application to public mental health 2: Ruth Bell and Michael Marmot: Social inequalities and mental health 3: Anita Patel: Economic costs of mental illness 4: Alize J. Ferrari, Holly E. Erskine, Fiona J. Charlson, Damian F. Santomauro, Janni Leung, and Harvey A. Whiteford: The global burden of mental and substance use disorders: A review of methods, findings and applications of data from the Global Burden of Disease study 5: Kwame McKenzie: Models of causation of mental illness 6: Edward Shaw and Daniel J. Smith: Genetic influences across the age span 7: Joshua Moses and Robert Whitley: Public mental health and anthropology: An ecological approach 8: Tom K. J. Craig: Social factors and mental health 9: Jennifer Dykxhoorn and James Kirkbride: The epidemiological burden of major psychiatric disorders 10: Felix J. Rosenberg and Daniel Miranda: Critical epidemiology 11: Angelo d'Errico and Giuseppe Costa: Occupational epidemiology 12: Katie Blissard Barnes and Max Henderson: Public mental health and occupational health 13: Hideki Hashimoto and Norito Kawakami: Health equity Section 2: Evidence 14: Kwame McKenzie: Social capital and mental health 15: Felicia A. Huppert and Kai Ruggeri: Controversies in well-being: Confronting and resolving the challenges 16: Mel Bartley: Unemployment and mental health 17: Tom K. J. Craig and Jed Boardman: Housing and mental health 18: M. Harvey Brenner: Social class and mental health: The impact of international recession and austerity 19: Kamaldeep Bhui: The social determinants of mental health 20: Syed Masud Ahmed and Mohammad Didar Hossain: Social determinants in low income countries 21: Mike McHugh: Mental and physical health 22: Skye P. Barbic and Stefan J. Cano: Clinical outcome assessment in mental health 23: Paulo Amarante and Eduardo Torre: Environmental contaminants and mental health: The chemicalization of life as a matter of violation of the right to health and renewal of the disease industry Section 3: Special groups 24: Fasli Sidheek, Veena A. Satyanarayana, and Geetha Desai: Family, marriage, and mental health 25: Kenneth L. Appelbaum: Prisoners and mental health 26: Martin Ploderl, Lieselotte Mahler, Timo O. Nieder, and Gotz Mundle: LGBTI and mental health 27: Richard Montoro: Sexual minority adolescents and mental health 28: Jessica L. Plauche and Bennett L. Leventhal: Children and adolescents 29: Linda Chiu Wa Lam and Wai Chi Chan: Recognising mental health problems in the ageing community 30: Sabyasachi Bhaumik, Dasari Mohan Michael, Reza Kiani, Avinash Hiremath, Shweta Gangavati and Amala Jesu: Mental health in intellectual disability 31: Niels Okkels, Christina Blanner Kristiansen, and Povl Munk-Jrgensen: Physical and psychiatric comorbidity 32: Vishal Bhavsar, Shuo Zhang, and Dinesh Bhugra: Globalization, migration, and mental health: A conceptual model for health research 33: Giulia Cossu, Antonio Preti, and Mauro Carta: Treatment of mental health problems in refugees and asylum seekers 34: Dexing Zhang and Samuel Yeung Shan Wong: Lifestyle 35: William Gilmore, Katherine Brown, and Ian Gilmore: Prevention approaches to reduce alcohol-related harm 36: Patricia Conrod and Olive Mukamana: Prevention of drug addiction 37: Joseph Lau, Jinghua Li, Rui She, and Yoo Na Kim: Implications of the global mental health and HIV syndemic on HIV prevention and care 38: Lakshmi Vijayakumar and Morton Silverman: Suicide and the prevention of suicidal behaviours 39: Danuta Wasserman, Miriam Iosue, and Vladimir Carli: Suicidal behaviour among adolescents: Risk and protective factors and universal evidence-based suicide prevention programmes Section 4: Interventions: Types and places 40: Stephen Scott: Parenting skills and promotion of mental health over the lifespan 41: Philip Boyce, Megan Galbally, and Alain Gregoire: Pregnancy: The earliest opportunity for prevention and early intervention for mental disorders 42: Katherine Weare: Promoting mental health and well-being: What can schools do? 43: David J. Castle, Ana Lusicic, and Melissa Petrakis: Early intervention in psychiatry 44: Petra C. Gronholm, Claire Henderson, Tanya Deb, and Graham Thornicroft: Anti-stigma interventions: Theory and evidence 45: Susan L. Fletcher, Sandra K. Davidson, and Jane M. Gunn: Managing stress 46: Roger M. K. Ng and Che Kin Lee: Psychological intervention as a measure for promoting public mental health: Is it a white elephant? 47: Ursula Werneke and Ingvar A. Bergdahl: Diet, environment, and mental health 48: Mirai Chatterjee: Mental health and its social determinants: Some experiences of the Self-Employed Women s Association (SEWA) in India 49: Carmen Wong, Wai Ching Ng, Hua Zhong, and Anne Scully Hill: Interpersonal violence 50: T. A. Supraja, D. Padmavathy, and Prabha Chandra: Poverty and interpersonal violence 51: Marguerite Regan, Jenny Edwards, and Iris Elliott: NGOs and mental health 52: Kamaldeep Bhui: Public health and terrorism 53: Sarah Stewart-Brown: Resilience and wellbeing 54: Christopher C. H. Cook and Nathan H. White: Resilience and the role of spirituality 55: Annisa Lee and Stephan Hyeonjun Stiller: Innovations in the area of social media 56: Maryann Waugh, Matthew Mishkind, and Jay H. Shore: Telemental health: A public mental health perspective 57: Laura Shields, Soumitra Pathare, Pallavi Karnatak, and Keshav Desiraju: Policy and public mental health in low and middle income countries 58: Sarah Stewart-Brown: Managing research and evaluation for public mental health 59: David M. Ndetei, Christine W. Musyimi, Erick S. Nandoya, Lydia Matoke, and Victoria N. Mutiso: Working with traditional healers to reduce mental health treatment gap in low and middle income countries Section 5: Conclusions 60: Dinesh Bhugra, Kamaldeep Bhui, Samuel Yeung Shan Wong, and Stephen Gilman: Conclusion