That's a great question.
I would say that Dr. Johnson is probably a better expert than I to actually come up with the evidence. Just anecdotally in terms of mental health issues writ large, I would argue that there has been a sea change in the country in terms of our understanding, and not only our understanding but also our ability to talk about it publicly.
It's not that long ago that people were reluctant to even talk about mental well-being, even within the agencies. As a public health issue, I would say it's still relatively new. We work with public health nurses and others within the public health community to situate these issues from a public health perspective, from an area of more upstream interventions so that we can prevent the downstream effects, so that we don't have to deal with people in treatment.
Obviously that's not to discount the provincial and territorial roles of the systemic issues that are at play, but when you talk about public health, our interest is in understanding many of these illnesses, or these disorders, as those where, utilizing the right interventions, we can prevent something from happening down the road.
That involves healthy image, that involves self-confidence and self-esteem, that involves prevention of child abuse, prevention of sexual abuse—all of the things that are risk factors, as Dr. Johnson talked about, for the types of disorders that take place later in life.