Psychiat Invest
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Mental health is essential for individual and public health. To improve mental health, promotion, prevention, and the treatment of disease are required. ⋯ This review introduces an overview of the concept, subjects according to target populations, and various intervention strategies for mental health promotion and prevention of mental illnesses. Based on literatures to date, understanding of developmental psychology, lifestyle medicine, and biopsychosocial contributors of mental health with a macroscopic perspective might help to practice mental health promotion and illness prevention.