The Sixty-sixth World Health Assembly, consisting of Ministers of Health of 194 Member States, adopted the WHO’s Comprehensive Mental Health Action Plan 2013-2020 in May 2013. In 2019, the action plan was extended until 2030 by the Seventy-second World Health Assembly. Then in 2021, the Seventy-fourth World Health Assembly endorsed updates to ...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has had a severe impact on the mental health and wellbeing of people around the world while also raising concerns of increased suicidal behaviour. In addition access to mental health services has been severely impeded. However, no comprehensive summary of the current data on these impacts has until now been made widely ...
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Mental health conditions include mental disorders and psychosocial disabilities as well as other mental states associated with significant distress, impairment in functioning or risk of self-harm. In 2019, 970 million people globally were living with a mental disorder, with anxiety and depression the most common.
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An estimated 15% of working-age adults have a mental disorder at any point in time. Depression and anxiety are estimated to cost the global economy US $1 trillion each year driven predominantly by lost productivity. People living with severe mental health conditions are largely excluded from work despite participation in economic activities being important for recovery. The WHO guidelines on ...
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Mental health is a state of mental well-being that enables people to cope with the stresses of life, realize their abilities, learn well and work well, and contribute to their community. It is an integral component of health and well-being that underpins our individual and collective abilities to make decisions, build relationships and shape ...
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Wake-up call to all countries to step up mental health services and support. In the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, global prevalence of anxiety and depression increased by a massive 25%, according to a scientific brief released by the World Health Organization (WHO) today. The brief also highlights who has been most affected and ...
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The Aung Clinic is a community-based mental health service located in Yangon, Myanmar. The Clinic provides emergency drop-in services to long-term therapy and offers an extensive range of support activities for people with mental health conditions and psychosocial disabilities. The service supports over 200 individuals and their families per ...
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New 5-year strategy for mental health. Buoyed by recent progress, the Government of Liberia, with the support of WHO and partners, is developing a Mental Health Strategy for 2016-2021. The Strategy includes detailed plans for a strong and comprehensive system of mental health care, with robust community-based services, clinicians, nurses ...
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Using artificial intelligence (AI) in mental health services and research has potential, but a new study finds significant shortcomings that may indicate overly accelerated promotion of new AI models that have yet to be evaluated as viable in the real world. How AI can support mental health services In 2021, over 150 million people in the WHO European Region were living with a mental health ...
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ol9 to assess the strength of the mental health system of the Philippines.. We expanded the tool to include multi-sector entry points for mental health promotion and services, a focus on vulnerable populations, and stratificatio. of relevant sociodemographic and health indicators across the life-course. The PRIME tool assesses six thematic ...
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