Social Inequalities and Mental Health: Developing Services and Developing Knowledge.

This article talks about the issue on developing services and developing knowledge on social inequalities and mental health. The first two papers are primarily concerned with making the case for substantial changes in service provision. In their paper, Joe Miller and Calvin Bell provide a very convincing case for bringing a social inequalities perspective to work with men with mental health difficulties. The third paper, by Sharon Jennings, provides a description and commentary of her efforts to safeguard Black mental health projects, by careful attention to the process of their development. The following six papers all describe the work of projects that were explicitly established to help people survive the ways in which social inequality had affected their mental health. Finally, one of the assumptions behind the development of this Special Issue is that knowledge about social inequalities and mental health needs to be developed by service users, service providers and researchers working together.