Continuity as a scientific and conceptual futurological approach to the epistemology of social psychiatry

The article examines the exploratory strategic directions that have formed over the past two decades as part of the development of a multilevel continuity in the study of social determinants of mental health of separate social groups and society as a whole. Such universal and potentially significant indicators were chosen as the main ones, which have a brutal effect on the full range of social development of the entire population, regardless of territorial (regional, local, etc.) location, ethnic and cultural characteristics, material well-being and social status of the population, and also other external and internal factors influencing directly and indirectly. We studied the relationship of the main socio-demographic parameters that are common for the entire population of the region under consideration, such as population migration, unemployment and the prevalence of mental disorders, the correlation of poverty indicators and money incomes of the population with the level of registered alcoholism and drug addiction in the region.