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Education, News, Publications
Our 2022-2023 advocacy roadmap
This Global Mental Health Advocacy Roadmap 2022-2023 sets out an ambitious but achievable pathway towards realising our vision of a world where everyone, everywhere has someone to turn to in support of their mental health and wellbeing.
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Education, News
No excuses left to fight depression
Almost four years ago, in 2018, a group of researchers — including experts from disciplines such as economics, epidemiology, neuroscience, primary care, psychiatry, psychology, and public health from Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Italy, Japan, India, US, UK, the Netherlands, and Zimbabwe — were prompted by the scientific journal The Lancet in partnership with the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) to think about why depression remains a neglected global health crisis, despite abundant evidence that much can be done to prevent and aid recovery of people suffering from it even in resource-limited settings and to propose avenues for action.
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Education, News, Suicide Decriminalisation
Comprehensive mental health action plan
This week the World Health Assembly is due to approve the updated WHO Comprehensive Mental Health Action Plan (2021-2030). This article summarises what are the new aspects of this plan compared to the old one (2013-2020). For
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Education, Financing, News, Systems, UHC
Our statement to the 74th World Health Assembly
The tragedy of the COVID-19 pandemic of the past year has put mental health into sharp focus across the world. The extraordinary increase in mental health needs - with the added challenges of COVID-19 - is taking its toll on already overburdened mental health services.
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Education, News
United for Global Mental Health joins the first-ever #MentalHealthAction Day
With the COVID-19 pandemic highlighting the growing mental health crisis, amid the continued struggle of systemic racism, we are proud to be joining a coalition of more than 1000 organizations, brands, government agencies and cultural leaders for the world’s first-ever Mental Health Action Day.
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