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Publications [#270344] of adrian c. angold

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  1. Costello, EJ; Angold, A (2000). Developmental psychopathology and public health: past, present, and future.. Development and Psychopathology, 12(4), 599-618. [11202035], [doi]
    (last updated on 2023/06/01)

    Abstract:
    Children's healthy mental development has never been the focus of long-term, committed public health policy in the way that early physical health and development have been. We discuss four types of societal response to illness-cure, care, control, and prevention--and trace the history of public health in terms of its special responsibility to control and prevent disease. We identify four periods in the history of public health: the Sanitarian era (up to 1850), the Bacterial era (1850-1950), the Behavioral era (1950-present), and the Communitarian era (the next century). Looking at this history from the viewpoint of the developmental psychopathology of the first 2 decades of life, we trace progress in public health responses to children with mental illness, from a philosophy of control by isolation toward one of preventive intervention. We examine primary, or universal, prevention strategies that have been tried, and we suggest some that might be worth reconsidering.


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