Comprehensive mental health action plan 2013–2020

Comprehensive mental health action plan 2013-2020.

Twenty years ago, a book was published entitled World mental health: problems and priorities in low-income countries (1). A few years later in 2001, the World Health Organization (WHO) devoted its World Health Report to Mental health: new understanding, new hope (2), and the Institute of Medicine in the United States of America brought out Neurological, psychiatric, and developmental disorders:...

World Health Assembly adopts Comprehensive Mental Health Action Plan 2013–2020

1970 www.thelancet.com Vol 381 June 8, 2013 On May 27, 2013, the World Health Assembly adopted the Comprehensive Mental Health Action Plan 2013–2020 that has great potential to change the direction of mental health in countries around the world in the next 8 years. This action plan and the accompanying resolution—a fi rst in the history of WHO—represent a formal recognition of the importance of...

Risks to Mental Health: an Overview of Vulnerabilities and Risk Factors Background Paper by Who Secretariat for the Development of a Comprehensive Mental Health Action Plan

This WHO Discussion Paper does not represent an official position of WHO (please refer to the disclaimer included on the last page of this paper). Risks to mental health: an overview of vulnerabilities and risk factors Background paper by WHO secretariat for the development of a comprehensive mental health action plan

Strategy and plan of action on mental health for the Region of Americas.

Running head: COMPREHENSIVE MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES