Resources

In partnership with Speak Your Mind, the Mental Health Innovation Network, produced a series of country profiles with locally-led, evidence-based recommendations for mental health across 8 countries.

Mental Health Matters is a Starter Kit for civil society organisations, development sector professionals and policy makers that illustrates how mental health is integral to, cuts across and influences development outcomes of health, education, livelihoods, disaster response and justice.

Produced by the Young Leaders for the Lancet Commission on Global Mental Health and Sustainable Development, this Policy Brief embodies the principles of Youth participation and calls policy makers to action with key recommendations to prioritise global action on mental health for young people.

This infographic highlights three tools for rights-based mental health system reform.

UNICEF Operational Guidelines on Community-based mental health and psychosocial support in humanitarian settings: Three-tiered support for children and families.

These resources are outputs from the Global ministerial Mental Health Summit that took place between the 9th and 10th of October in London. While the recommendations are for ministers, the declarations summarise the commitments that were made during the landmark event.

This report characterises mental health as a policy issue, and draws upon the experience of different social movements across global health to provide lessons for this field.

WHO report on the need to invest in mental health.

WHO/Europe has released a report assessing the quality of institutional care for adults with psychosocial and intellectual disabilities in the WHO European Region.

This is the final report of the six-year collaboration between the WHO Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse and the Gulbenkian Global Mental Health Platform.

"Mental Health in the Workplace” is the theme of World Mental Health Day 2017 and the World Federation for Mental Health has released a report to start the discussion on how we can define best practice in promoting mental health in the workplace.

Existing evidence, although limited, suggest that integrating HIV and mental health services may be linked to improved patient and service delivery outcomes in diverse settings.