Mental Health Support: Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal

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While covering services, policies, legislation, plans, strategies and programmes, the WHA Resolution requested the Director General, inter alia, to develop a comprehensive mental health action plan, in consultation with Member States.

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You have an authentic voice. So there’re all sorts of things you know that other people seek for to know you are not alone. What has given you hope? You can make a difference for yourself and others by sharing your experiences and perspective. Let me ask you something. What hasn’t? Normally, what has helped? Comprehensive mental health action plan ‘20132020’ is centred around 4 objectives, all of which are designed to serve the overall goal to ‘promote mental well being, prevent mental disorders, provide care, enhance recovery, promote human rights and reduce the mortality, morbidity and disability for persons with mental disorders’.

Twenty years ago, a book was published entitled World mental health.

These publications were among the first to seize upon the finding that, since their chronic course and disabling nature, mental, neurological and substance use disorders contribute very significantly to the global burden of disease.

Few years later in 2001, the World Health Organization devoted its World Health Report to Mental health. Institute of Medicine in the United States of America brought out Neurological, psychiatric, and developmental disorders. Now let me tell you something. Any report also drew strong attention to the desperate situation in most lowand middleincome countries regarding the availability, quality and range of treatment services, and produced a series of recommendations for research and training, service provision and policy. It’s often hard for thosestrugglingand their families and friends to talk about what they’re going through, as long as of the stigma attached to mental illness.

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Now, a ‘zero’ draft prepared by the WHO Secretariat in the summer of 2012 was made available for comment to all interested parties via a web consultation and was used for global and regional consultation meetings, including in the Eastern Mediterranean Region. I look for to isn’t greatly different to how it was 20 years ago.

There continues to be widespread stigma, discrimination and human rights violations against persons with mental disorders and psychosocial disabilities. So treatment gap is as large as ever, Resources allocated to mental health remain extremely modest. For any objective, a series of defined actions are identified for Member States, for international and national partners, and for the WHO Secretariat. For example, while strengthening and implementation of mental health policies, strategies, programmes, laws and regulations, resource planning; engagement and involvement with all relevant stakeholders; and empowerment of people with mental disorders and psychosocial disabilities, Relating to governance and leadership, as an example, proposed actions for Member States cover the development. Actually, the agreement by all countries -large and small, rich and poor, from all regions of the world -on an ordinary vision for mental health with objectives to reach defined targets within a specified time period represents an important step in a longer process to improve mental health across the world. Some info can be found easily on the web. Adoption of the Comprehensive Mental Health Action Plan ‘20132020’ by the World Health Assembly in May 2013 provides the clearest example to date of an increasing commitment by governments to enhance the priority given to mental health within their health and public policy.

Any of the 4 objectives is accompanied by 1 or 2 specific targets which provide the basis for measurable collective action and achievement by Member States wards global goals.

Additional indicators include.

WHO Secretariat was requested to prepare and propose a more complete set of indicators for Member States to use as the basis for routine data collection and reporting to WHO, since the 6 targets and associated indicators represent only a subset of the information and reporting needs that Member States require to be able to adequately monitor their mental health policies and programmes. Baseline data collection for this set of core mental health indicators had been undertaken via a revised 2014 the Mental version health atlas. I know it’s anticipated that the Atlas exercise should be repeated periodically, that will enable progress wards implementation of the plan as well as the monitoring of global targets. So it’s, therefore, equally vital that this particular global action plan be subject to a process of adaptation to prevailing local circumstances, standards and priorities.

Ultimately, however, policies are determined, resources are allocated and services are developed at the national level. With strong ‘buy in’ and consensus across stakeholders, agreement on the overall structure and content of a global plan of action, is a vital step wards more coordinated and unified action wards improving mental health system access, quality and outcomes globally. Looking across the Member States that comprise the Eastern Mediterranean Region, for sake of example, So there’re enormous differences with respect to national income, resource availability and the state of the health care system, that is expected to have an important influence on the precise set of actions that can actually be undertaken. So the different ways by which key actions can be effectively accomplished, for any action area. Which reflects not only the diversity of current resources and opportunities among countries. That said, unlike our NAMI blog, these spaces also allow for anonymous public posting. NAMI offers two safe, moderated spaces for sharing stories and creative expression.

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The evidence briefs set out in this Mental Health Supplement were a direct input into these proceedings.

Thus, in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, the initial consultation held at the drafting stage of development is followed by a technical inter country meeting at which regionally focused objectives, implementation strategies and performance indicators will be reviewed, discussed and approved by national counterparts. Generally, this process is facilitated by WHO through the development of regional action plans and implementation frameworks, that has enabled groupings of countries with shared cultural values to better reflect their own needs and preferences. New alliances and partnerships been formed, including civil society organizations advocating for better rights and service access for persons with mental disorders and their families.