World Health Organization's 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...

Success of 2013–2020 World Health Organization action plan to control non-communicable diseases would require pollutants control

We are well aware that there is an ongoing epidemic of diabetes in Asian countries. The World Health Organization (WHO) also recognizes this fact and predicts the absolute number of deaths will be the highest among Asians, because the sheer numbers of patients are the largest. China and India are the key countries. Still, I was shocked when I saw the report that diabetes prevalence in China rea...

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World mental health day.

1Institute of Mental Health 2Department of Psychiatry, Singapore General Hospital Address for Correspondence: Dr Kuan Tsee Chee, Woodbridge Hospital and Institute of Mental Health, Buangkok Green Medical Park, 10 Buangkok View, Singapore 539747. Email: [email protected] Introduction In medical disease, there are physical and/or mental symptoms and generally, there is a recognised aetiol...