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Todman, Lynn. "Mental Health Impact Assessment" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the SCRA Biennial Meeting, Roosevelt University/Harold Washington Library, Chicago, IL, <Not Available>. 2013-05-18 <http://citation.allacademic.com/meta/p503129_index.html>

Todman, L. C. "Mental Health Impact Assessment" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the SCRA Biennial Meeting, Roosevelt University/Harold Washington Library, Chicago, IL <Not Available>. 2013-05-18 from http://citation.allacademic.com/meta/p503129_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: Discourse on the Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) has largely focused on the impact of social conditions on physical health outcomes and the role of those conditions in causing disparities in the incidence of such illnesses as respiratory, cardiovascular and infectious diseases; cancers; and diabetes. By comparison, SDOH discourse on the impacts of social conditions on mental health outcomes and disparities in such illnesses as depression, anxiety and other psychological, emotional and cognitive difficulties, is far more limited. Moreover, an emergent practice for taking action on the social determinants of health, Health Impact Assessments (HIAs), has also overwhelmingly focused on physical health to the relative neglect of mental health. In this symposium, we will describe a project in which we are conducting a Mental Health Impact Assessment (MHIA) on a public proposal that stands to impact the collective mental health and well-being of a low-income African American community. The MHIA is essentially an analytic tool for prospectively investigating the likely impacts of public decisions and actions on the collective mental health and wellbeing of a community. In our presentation, we will describe the five basic steps of MHIA -- screening, scoping, assessing, reporting, and monitoring -- and the ways in which we have engaged the targeted community in each step, including in issue identification, identification of key research questions, data gathering and analysis, development of recommendations, communication of results, and process and outcome evaluation. A highly participatory process, MHIA can play a central role in building the capacity of vulnerable communities to engage in research that enables their informed deliberation and meaningful influence on public decisions that impact their health and well-being.

Conducting a Mental Health Impact Assessment in the Englewood Community of Chicago

Assessing the Impact of Mental Health Courts

Assessing the impact of mental health courts: Findings from an evaluation of two New York jurisdictions