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Implementation
Publication date: 
2007
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World Health Organization

The Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) issued these guidelines to enable humanitarian actor to plan, establish and coordinate a set of minimum multi-sectoral responses to protect and improve people's mental health and psychosocial well-being in the midst of an emergency.

The guidelines offer essential advice on how to facilitate an integrated approach to address the most urgent mental health and psychosocial issues in emergency situations.

 
Approach: 
Treatment, care and rehabilitation
Training, education and capacity building
Setting: 
Community
Population: 
Humanitarian and conflict health
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  • This resource is also available for download in the ‘General Guidance’ section of International Medical Corps’ “Mental Health Integration Toolkit”. The Toolkit aims to increase the understanding of integrated mental health programs in humanitarian settings, and provides valuable guidance for better resource allocation and implementation of the steps and components of Mental Health Integration.

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