Article Comments, launching a new movement for mental health

Despite the great attention western countries pay to the mind and human consciousness in philosophy and the arts, disturbances of mental health remain not only neglected but also deeply stigmatised across our societies. Viewed through a global lens, this marginal-isation is only amplified still further. Yet the fragile—and utterly fragmented for the most disadvantaged—state of mental health services in many countries is not for the want of trying.

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Article Call for Action

We call for the global health community, governments, donors, multilateral agencies, and other mental health
stakeholders, such as professional bodies and consumer groups, to scale up the coverage of services for mental disorders in all countries, but especially in low-income and middle-income countries. We argue that a basic, evidence-based package of services for core mental disorders should be scaled up, and that protection of the human rights of people with mental disorders and their families should be strengthened. Three questions are critical to the scaling-up process.

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Course Ineke Jungschleger & Gien Tuender

What is your aim in seeking publicity

Publicity is one way to spread knowledge about psychiatric disorders and the possibilities of their treatment. A wider public knowledge can support the efforts to reach a better position for clients, professionals and institutions in psychiatry.

‘Unknown’ implies: no love and no money.

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Workshop advocacy education

What is Advocacy?

The process of influencing policy making in our city/region/country or at the level of international institutions (in support of policy changes in favor of our institute or non governmental, non commercial education sector).

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