User:Dayana san/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
(Provide a link to the article here.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Social_determinants_of_mental_health&oldid=1209239384

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

I have always been interested on mental health. And would like to have more information on it especially what things can cause. Would like to expand on the information in this article and see if there are any other factors that effect mental health.

Evaluate the article
(Compose a detailed evaluation of the article here, considering each of the key aspects listed above. Consider the guiding questions, and check out the examples of what a useful Wikipedia article evaluation looks like.)

Evaluating this article right away there is an introduction paragraph that goes into what some of the social determinants are and who or what things are being affect by these social determinants. Some of these determinants are income levers, education, housing, and social inclusion(environmental). Also age, gender, race and others(fixed characteristics). This article is split into different section and subsections each going into a certain social determinant. But before there is an introduction and a definition section. In which one summarizes and the other gives definition to mental health/ different mental health disorders and social determinants. The next section is inequities in mental health which briefly mentions inequality between men and women. Which women have the risk of having or have mental health compared to men. There’s also a brief statement about an increase in mental illnesses after COVID-19. In the next few subsection they fall under fixed characteristics which are genetic and biological and society cant change them. Like gender, sexual orientation, and race/ ethnicity. And each section goes into which group is more effected giving statistical evidence and what this effect does to the groups mental health. For the next group it talks about environmental factors like access to food, housing, pollution and climate. And for each there is a brief explanation and further information on how each factor effect a population. Including evidence based on studies. Last two subjects are social and economic factors. Which goes into things like stigma and discrimination and how many are afraid to talk about or get treatment. Which causes mental health to be mistreated or looked at. All of the section consist the right amount of information is put into each section.

When looking at the content of this article we see that it direct ties into the topic they are trying to convey. The content does seem to be up to date. COVID-19 which happened only a few years ago is touched on and how this pandemic effected mental health so I would say it’s up to date. I would say that the content does talk about many populations and groups that are underrepresented.

This article does as much as possible to eliminate bias which allows for the article to be neutral. This article touches many topic and underrepresented communities and just all the communities in general. So they aren’t trying to persuade the reader to any side. They are trying to advocate for all communities.

Reading this article I came across many facts or certain studies or statistical evidence to explain a certain social determinant. After each there always a source linked right after. The sources are definitely current. The source also come from diverse authors including some different areas including psychiatry, surgeons, and others who are certified to talk about different social communities and their effect with mental health. After reviewing some of the sources used they all brought me to an article or source. So they work

This article is composed of topics and sub topics which allows you to understand what certain social or fixed determinate is under what topic. It makes it clear what area it is under. Which makes it clear and easy to navigate. Having all these topics and subtopics broken down allows for the article to look organized.

Overall this article is well written. It is composed of topic and subtopic which make the article organized. The strength of the article would be that all factual information is backed up by a credible source. Another would be that all the information provided is relevant to what this article is about. This article can improve in the amount of information that each topic has. Some subtopic have more information than others. Trying to find more information on the topics that don’t have as much information. This article is well developed in which it talks about a topic and all the factors that go into each topic. And have factual evidence to back up these social determinate and how mental health ties into each of them.