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    Launch of the Centre for Public Mental Health and inaugural Alan J. Flisher* Memorial Lecture. Click here for details

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    Recruiting is beginning for the first full cohort of the Social Aetiology of Mental Illness (SAMI) Training Program. Click here for details

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    The Perinatal Mental Health Project as part of the Mental Health and Poverty Project launched a new website and linked their recently produced short film Caring for Mothers onto the site. Click here for the film

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    The Movement loses Alan Flisher, a champion of global mental health find out more

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    Join in the conversation!
    The summaries of the first round of discussion about the Future of the Movement have been posted on the discussion board.
    Please read them here and let us know what you think!

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    The TAC's latest magazine is devoted to mental health Click here to read 

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    "NIMH commits to supporting global mental health" click here for more

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    A new Facebook Group for the Movement is now set up; you can join up at: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=44154737699

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Core indicators for mental health
       

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Objective   Indicator   Sources of data
         

T1: Ensure that national/regional health plans pay sufficient attention to mental health.

  

I1: Presence of official policy, programme or plan for mental health (Atlas, AIMS 1.1.1, 1.2.1) (either including or accompanied by a policy on child and adolescent mental health).

  

National government.
       

T2: Invest more in mental health care.

 

I2: Specified budget for mental health as a proportion of total health budget (Atlas, AIMS 1.5.1).

  

National government.
       

T3: Increase trained staff to provide mental health care.

  

I3: Mental health and related professionals per 100,000 population (AIMS 4.1.1).

  

National government & professional bodies.
       

T4: Make basic pharmacological treatments available in primary care.

  

I4: Proportion of primary health care  clinics in which a physician or an equivalent health worker is available, where at least one psychotropic medicine of each therapeutic category (anti-psychotic, antidepressant, mood stabiliser, anxiolytic and anti-epileptic medicines) is available in the facility or in a nearby pharmacy all year long (AIMS 3.1.7).

  

National government.
       
T5: Increase the treatment coverage for people with schizophrenia.
I5: People treated each year for schizophrenia as a percentage of total estimated annual prevalence of schizophrenia (AIMS 2.2.4.2, 2.4.4.2, 2.6.5.2).
National government and statistical/academic organizations.
         
Key:     Atlas=WHO Mental Health Atlas, AIMS=WHO-AIMS, (figures in parentheses give the indicator number).
 
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