@mastering.public.health: Depression undermines chronic disease management. Chronic stress damages your heart and immune system. So why do we still treat mental and physical health as separate problems? 🧠 Behavioral health runs on the same social determinants as everything else: isolation, poverty, housing, and trauma. Splitting it off is a policy failure, not a clinical one. A real public health strategy builds behavioral health in at every level. Follow Mastering Public Health for MPH-level breakdowns that actually make sense. #PublicHealth #BehavioralHealth #MentalHealth #HealthEquity #MPH #Epidemiology