The Summit in the Media
|
| Summit | Images of the Summit | Recommendations for the future | |
|
 |
Nepal | E-News Article |Oct 2nd, 2009 | www.myrepublica.com |
|
At Global Mental Health Summit : Jagannath Lamichhane: With an aim to protect human rights of people with mental disorders and improve mental health services in the low income countries, the First Global Mental Health Summit concluded in Athens on 2 Septembeer, 2009. Amidst an overwhelming participation of activists, survivors and service users of mental health Click here to read more |
|
|
|
Pacific | Forum |Sept 2nd, 2009 | www.pacificdisability.org |
|
Lets Claim The Human Rights of People With Mental Disabilities In response to a growing concern about the vast unmet needs for care for people living with mental disorders around the world and the flagrant abuse of their human ights, the Movement for Global Mental Health was launched on October 10th, 2008 Click here for more |
|
|
|
UK | E-news Article |Sept 2nd, 2009 | www.craegmoor.co.uk |
|
Depression 'to be biggest health problem in 20 years' As the first Global Mental Health summit begins in Athens, experts are predicting that depression will be the biggest economic and social health burden over the next two decades. Click here for more |
|
|
|
Serbia | E-news Article | 4th Sept, 2009 | www.emportal.rs |
|
The Summit is being hosted as part of the World Federation for Mental Health's Biennial Congress and is supported by the Lancet, the Wellcome Trust, the Global Initiative of Psychiatry and the MacArthur Foundation. Click here for more |
|
|
|
India | E-news Article |Sept 11th, 2009 | www.merinews.com |
|
First ever global summit on mental health was held in Athens, Greece from September 2 to 6. The summit has sent the message that a more concerted and coordinated effort is needed to improve the mental health conditions in the world. Click here for more |
|
|
|
| Forum || www.scribd.com |
|
The Mental depresson is known as silent and mute pandemic. Hitherto this problem was not addressed at global level and the present convention on this problem is a welcome step. Click here for more |
|
|
|
Forum || www.whyweprotest.com |
|
Global Mental Health Summit in Athens - Why we protest ... Click here to read more |
|
|
|
USA | E-news Article |Sept 21st, 2009 | www.kff.org |
|
Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report Lancet Devoted Weekly Issue to Mental Health : In light of the Global Mental Health Summit held this week in Athens, Greece, the Lancet devotes its weekly issue to mental health click here to read the full article |
|
|
|
India | E-news Article |Sept 11th, 2009 | www.treehugger.com |
|
The first ever summit on Mental Health was convened in Athens, the capital of Greece form September 2-6. This Global Mental health Summit (GMH) was hosted as a part of World Federation for Mental heath Biennial Congress. Click here to read full article |
|
|
| Session 1 : scaling up services | Session 2 : human rights | |
|
