Mental health recovery and transformation: lessons for action

The centrality of the settings approach in building back better and fairer

“…COVID-19 has served as a powerful reminder that health is multi-faceted and holistic (Stansfield and Shah 2021) and that the effective promotion of physical, mental, emotional, spiritual and social wellbeing requires us to name, confront and address the wider determinants of health (McMahon 2021). We have experienced the multiple and interacting impacts of the pandemic in the settings of everyday life, with profound disruption to the places in which we live our lives -where we 'learn, work, play and love' (World Health Organization 1986, p3).…”

“Nothing's changed, baby”: How the mental health narratives of people with multiple and complex needs disrupt the recovery framework

“…This figure is likely to have risen in a post-COVID landscape ( Sher, 2021 ) and in the context of austerity measures introduced by European and US governments to reduce public spending on welfare, health and social care ( Altermark and Plesner, 2022 ; Harland et al, 2022 ). The COVID-19 pandemic has focused attention on the extent to which socio-economic and ethnic inequalities influence health ( Public Health England, 2020 ), reinforcing an understanding that physical and mental health inequalities will not be reduced without action on social and structural factors ( Stansfield and Shah, 2021 ).…”