MARATONE is built on the innovative theoretical premise of “horizontal epidemiology”, the view that psychosocial difficulties associated with mental health disorders are not exclusively determined by the diagnosis of the particular disorder in a vertical, silo-like pattern but ‘horizontally’ in a manner that reflects commonalities in the lived experience of people with diverse mental health problems.
Grounded in this theoretical foundation, MARATONE’s multidisciplinary network of partners will collaboratively develop methodologies for measuring the individual and social impact of mental health disorders, so as to create strategies for the social and private sector responses to mental ill health in the form of health promotion and prevention programmes, and at the national level, strategies for human rights protections in policies and programming. The consortium will provide young researchers with scientific expertise in mental health, as well as basic technical and communication skills, including research development and management, international human rights commitments, and commercial exploitation and dissemination.
The scientific dimension of MARATONE is composed of four research topics, which reflect the priority areas set out in the 2009 EU Parliament Resolution on Mental Health:
- TOPIC 1 - MENTAL HEALTH EPIDEMIOLOGY ACROSS THE LIFE SPAN
- TOPIC 2 - DEPRESSION AND DELIBERATE SELF-HARM
- TOPIC 3 - MENTAL HEALTH AND WELL-BEING IN WORKPLACE SETTINGS
- TOPIC 4 - HUMAN RIGHTS AND COMBATING STIGMA AND SOCIAL EXCLUSION
Staff
The programme is coordinated by Professor Cieza. The full partners include: University of Southampton (Soton, UK), Consortio Ciber Para el Area Tematica de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM, Spain), Fondazione IRCCS Instituto Neurologico Carlo Basta (INNCB, Italy), Instytut Psychiatrii i Neurologii (IPN, Poland), King’s College London (KCL, UK), Ludwig-Maximilians Universitat (LMU, Germany), London School of Economics (LSE, UK), National Suicide Research Foundation (NSRF, Ireland), Parc Sanitari Sant Joan De Deu (PSSJD, Spain), SIEMENS (Germany), Schweizer Paraplegiker-Forschung AG (SPF, Switzerland), Universitaet Leipzig (UoL, Germany), Oulun Yliopisto (UOulu, Finland)