Resources

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.

A smartphone app, HHoT, provides step-by-step guidance on how to implement a disability inclusive emergency response. Launched in 2018 the HHoT app also includes specific guidance on the inclusion of people with psycho-social disabilities.

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 systematic review is the first study that systematically assessed randomised controlled trials on focused psychosocial support interventions for children exposed to traumatic events in humanitarian settings in low-income countries.

The Lancet’s Health in Humanitarian Crises series focuses on how to improve the effectiveness of health responses in humanitarian crises.