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Explore key resources—from systematic reviews to policy briefs to training manuals—developed by MHIN or contributed by MHIN members working on real-world projects.

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Policy Brief: Mental health for global prosperity

MHIN policy brief prepared for the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting at Davos 2019.
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Policy and advocacy
Approach: 
Policy and legislation
Advocacy
Prevention and promotion
Detection and diagnosis
Treatment, care and rehabilitation
Training, education and capacity building
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Humanitarian Hands-on Tool (HHoT)

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.
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Implementation
Approach: 
Human rights
Empowerment and service user involvement
Advocacy
Task sharing
Technology
Prevention and promotion
Detection and diagnosis
Treatment, care and rehabilitation
Training, education and capacity building
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Policy Brief: Mental Health and Human Rights

MHIN policy brief prepared for Human Rights Day 2018 observed every year on the 10th of December.
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Policy and advocacy
Approach: 
Policy and legislation
Human rights
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Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit: Declarations and Recommendations

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.
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Policy and advocacy
Approach: 
Policy and legislation
Advocacy
Prevention and promotion
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WHO Preventing suicide: a community engagement toolkit Pilot version 1.0 (2016)

This toolkit is a step-by-step guide for communities to engage in suicide prevention activities, acknowledging the critical role communities can play in preventing suicide.
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Training
Approach: 
Empowerment and service user involvement
Advocacy
Prevention and promotion
Treatment, care and rehabilitation
Training, education and capacity building
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WHO resources on dementia 2018

WHO have launched the Global Dementia Observatory, a data and knowledge exchange platform that facilitates sharing of key dementia information in the areas of policy, service delivery and information & research and a new policy guide which provides useful information to Member States for creating and operationalizing a dementia plan.
Page type: 
Health promotion
Approach: 
Empowerment and service user involvement
Detection and diagnosis
Treatment, care and rehabilitation
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WHO Group Interpersonal Therapy (IPT) for Depression

With this new manual, part of WHO’s mhGAP programme, the WHO gives guidance on the use of interpersonal therapy (IPT) using a 8 session group protocol.
Page type: 
Training
Approach: 
Prevention and promotion
Treatment, care and rehabilitation
Training, education and capacity building
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WHO resources on dementia 2017

For World Alzheimer’s Day 2017, WHO released a new set of resources for different audiences on how to contribute to improving the lives of people with dementia, their carers and families.
Page type: 
Health promotion
Approach: 
Human rights
Empowerment and service user involvement
Detection and diagnosis
Treatment, care and rehabilitation
Training, education and capacity building
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WHO QualityRights Guidance & Training

The WHO Quality rights initiative has published 15 key training and guidance materials to transform these recommendations into practical on the ground solutions.
Page type: 
Evaluation
Approach: 
Human rights
Empowerment and service user involvement
Treatment, care and rehabilitation
Training, education and capacity building
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Partners in Health Curriculum Toolkit

PIH's collection of tools to build community-based systems of mental health care.
Page type: 
Implementation
Approach: 
Prevention and promotion
Detection and diagnosis
Treatment, care and rehabilitation
Training, education and capacity building
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Infographic: Innovations implementing the WHO Mental Health Gap Action Programme (mhGAP) Intervention Guide

Infographic of all innovations implementing the WHO Mental Health Gap Action Programme Intervention Guide
Page type: 
Implementation
Approach: 
Detection and diagnosis
Treatment, care and rehabilitation
Training, education and capacity building
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World Alzheimer Report 2016

The report argues that current dementia healthcare services are over-specialised, and that a rebalancing is required with a more prominent role for primary and community care.
Page type: 
Research summaries and systematic reviews
Approach: 
Policy and legislation
Detection and diagnosis
Treatment, care and rehabilitation
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World report on ageing and health

This WHO report reviews and recommends changes in the way health policies for ageing populations are formulated and services are provided.
Page type: 
Policy and advocacy
Approach: 
Policy and legislation
Human rights
Empowerment and service user involvement
Advocacy
Treatment, care and rehabilitation
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Out of the Shadows: Making mental health a global development priority

Authored by Seth Mnookin (MIT), this report is a product of almost two years of activities of a Working group chaired by Arthur Kleinman (Harvard University Asia Centre). This report was first presented during the keynote panel of a World Bank Group/ World Health Organization high-level meeting on making mental health a global development priority.
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Policy and advocacy
Approach: 
Advocacy
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ACTION FOR AGEING: A toolkit for organizing innovative events on the World report on ageing and health

A WHO toolkit for organizing innovative events on ageing and health
Page type: 
Policy and advocacy
Approach: 
Advocacy
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'Living with a black dog' video

“Living with a black dog” is a guide for partners, carers and sufferers of depression
Page type: 
Health promotion
Approach: 
Empowerment and service user involvement
Advocacy
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World Alzheimer Report 2014: Dementia and Risk Reduction- An analysis of protective and modifiable factors

This report has been produced to inform health promotion and disease prevention strategies.
Page type: 
Health promotion
Approach: 
Policy and legislation
Prevention and promotion
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Human Rights Watch World Report 2014

World Report 2014 is Human Rights Watch’s 24th annual review of human rights practices around the globe. It summarizes key human rights issues in more than 90 countries and territories worldwide, drawing on events through November 2013.
Page type: 
Policy and advocacy
Approach: 
Human rights
Advocacy
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WFMH 'Living with Schizophrenia' Report

A report by The World Federation for Mental Health (WFMH) on “Living with Schizophrenia”
Page type: 
Policy and advocacy
Approach: 
Policy and legislation
Empowerment and service user involvement
Prevention and promotion
Detection and diagnosis
Treatment, care and rehabilitation
Training, education and capacity building
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EMPAD - Empowering adults with mental illness for learning and social inclusion

The Clubhouse method emphasizes the recovery orientation, learning opportunities, social inclusion and labour market integration of people with different mental health problems.
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Policy and advocacy
Approach: 
Empowerment and service user involvement
Advocacy
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