Move for mental health: let’s invest
For this year’s World Mental Health Day, WHO is calling for a massive scale-up in investment in mental health together with the partner organizations United for Global Mental Health and the World Federation for Mental Health. The World Mental Health Day campaign, Move for mental health: let’s invest will kick off in September and aims to encourage public action around the world.
“World Mental Health Day is an opportunity for the world to come together and begin redressing the historic neglect of mental health,” said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization. “We are already seeing the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on people’s mental well-being, and this is just the beginning. Unless we make serious commitments to scale up investment in mental health right now, the health, social and economic consequences will be far-reaching.”