Resources

Report of the proceedings of the April 2016 World Bank/WHO event 'Out of the Shadows: Making mental health a global development priority'

Fact sheet showing symptoms, treatment, and stats about the disorder.

This paper employs a scoping review and interviews with social entrepreneurs to assess the uptake of social entrepreneurship in the literature and to articulate this concept for mental health.

A comprehensive review of the evidence on improving the mental health and wellbeing of children under the age of 18 living in countries affected by armed conflict

The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), which includes the US, Canada, Australia, China and 17 other countries included a Roadmap to Promote Mental Wellness in a Healthy Asia Pacific (2014-2020) in the official declaration of their 26th annual meeting.

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.

A visual summary of the Mental Health Report: 'Transforming Lives, Enhancing Communities' that was launched at the Qatar Foundation's World Innovation Summit for Health in Doha in December 2013.

Democratising Mental Health is a short documentary film (9 mins) set in Nepal told from a patient perspective

Great overview of mental health care in England by The King's Fund.

Systematic review on published literature on interventions to train health-care workers in Africa on mental health

A MHIN review summary for the review entitled "Estimating the coverage of mental health programmes: a systematic review" (De Silva et al, 2014).

A MHIN summary for a systematic review on: 'The Acceptability and Feasibility of Task-Sharing for Mental Healthcare in Low and Middle Income Countries: A Systematic Review' (Padmanathan and De Silva, 2013).