WHO MIND - Mental Health in Development

• Action in countries: nations at work
  Supporting countries to improve the lives of people with mental disorders.

• Mental health policy, planning & service development: integration for better services
  Mental health policy and action plans are essential because they coordinate, through a common vision, all programmes and services related to mental health.

• Mental health, human rights & legislation: denied citizens: including the excluded
  Too many people with mental disability are exposed to a wide range of human rights violations both within psychiatric institutions and in the community.

• Mental health, poverty & development: mental health core to development
  Mental health is integral to achieving many development priorities. However people with mental and psychosocial disabilities are not only missed by development programmes, but can be actively excluded from these programmes.

• The QualityRights project: act, unite and empower for better mental health
  This project works to unite and empower people to improve the quality of care and promote human rights in mental health facilities and social care homes.

Mental health policy and service development

Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, WHO Geneva.