World Mental Health Report: Transforming Mental Health for All

This case spotlights the president of the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), expected to conduct a thorough analysis to formulate a plan on tackling the impact of and the issues surrounding Lyme disease in Canada. She is tasked with prioritizing Lyme Disease in the government’s agenda, which normally focuses on mental health and chronic disease prevention. This case analyzes situations in which leaders must assess various options in project implementation, understand processes, account for…

This case study focuses on a health promoter at the Great Lakes County Public Health Unit, recently tasked with planning and implementing a school-based mental health intervention for youth in her community. Finding that the mental health system is focused mainly on diagnosis and treatment rather than prevention and building of protective factors, she aims to build an intervention emphasizing mental health promotion in the elementary-school years to minimize risk factors and lower the likelihood…

This case from the Western Public Health Casebook 2019 introduces readers to commonly encountered challenges that researchers run into when working with hard-to-reach and vulnerable populations. Caroline Rochester recently accepted a role as a research coordinator for the Elder Abuse Project at Rudyard University working to identify the risk factors associated with elder abuse in the Arab communities of Canada. However, the project has run into problems. The addition of new participants has stalled due…