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<p>Mental health is sometimes understood as merely the absence of mental illness and sometimes more expansively as inclusive of a broader and more complete mental well-being. We present conceptual, empirical, and causal evidence for a distinction between the absence of mental illness and positive mental well-being. We discuss the implications for assessment, national tracking, research, policy, and mental healthcare. We argue for a greater clinical, policy, and public health attentiveness to positive mental well-being, to supplement work already being done on the treatment and prevention of mental illness.</p>

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Mental illness, mental health, and mental well-being

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    2026年2月14日

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  • Tyler J. VanderWeele,
  • Byron R. Johnson,
  • Matt Bradshaw,
  • David M. Goodman,
  • Laura D. Kubzansky,
  • Tim Lomas,
  • Alexander Moreira-Almeida,
  • Chukwuemeka N. Okafor,
  • Suzanne T. Ouyang,
  • Vikram Patel

摘要

Mental health is sometimes understood as merely the absence of mental illness and sometimes more expansively as inclusive of a broader and more complete mental well-being. We present conceptual, empirical, and causal evidence for a distinction between the absence of mental illness and positive mental well-being. We discuss the implications for assessment, national tracking, research, policy, and mental healthcare. We argue for a greater clinical, policy, and public health attentiveness to positive mental well-being, to supplement work already being done on the treatment and prevention of mental illness.