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The world health report 2001 - Mental Health: New Understanding, New Hope

The 2001 report focuses on the fact that mental health – neglected for far too long – is crucial to the overall well-being of individuals, societies and countries. The report advocates policies that are urgently needed to ensure that stigma and discrimination are broken down and that effective prevention and treatment are put in place.

- World health report 2001 press kit

report by chapters

- Message from the Director-General
- Overview
- Chapter 1: A public health approach to mental health
- Chapter 2: Burden of mental and behavioural disorders
- Chapter 3: Solving mental health problems
- Chapter 4: Mental health policy and service provision
- Chapter 5: The way forward
- Statistical annex

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