On May 27, 2013, the World Health Assembly adopted the Comprehensive Mental Health Action Plan 2013–2020 that has great potential to change the direction of mental health in countries around the world in the next 8 years. This action plan and the accompanying resolution—a first in the history of WHO—represent a formal recognition of the importance of mental health for WHO’s 194 member states. It is also a commitment by all member states to take specified actions to improve mental health and to contribute to the attainment of a set of agreed global targets.
The action plan focuses on four key objectives:
- to strengthen effective leadership and governance for mental health
- provide comprehensive, integrated and responsive mental health and social care services in community-based settings
- implement strategies for promotion and prevention in mental health
- strengthen information systems, evidence and research for mental health”
[1] Dr Margaret Chan, the WHO Director-General, described the new Comprehensive Mental Health Action Plan 2013–2020 as a landmark achievement: it focuses international attention on a long-neglected problem and is firmly rooted in the principles of human rights. The action plan calls for changes. It calls for a change in the attitudes that perpetuate stigma and discrimination that have isolated people since ancient times, and it calls for an expansion of services in order to promote greater efficiency in the use of resources.
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1.) WHO. Draft comprehensive mental health action plan 2013–2020. http://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/WHA66/A66_10Rev1-en.pdf; May 16, 2013. ((accessed June 3, 2013).)
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