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

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    Mental illness in Australian immigration detention centres click here for more

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    Gurus of Mental Health click here for more

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    Grand Challenge on Global Mental Health announced! find out more

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    PLoS Medicine launched a new series of Reviews Click here for more

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    The Lancet announces a new series on Global Mental Health in partnership with the Movement - have your say!

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    Mental health : a global challenge
    The first Global Mental Health Summit took place in the greek capital, Athens. Click here for the link.

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    Disability Rights Fund Releases Second 2009 Request for Proposals, Extending Another Year of Grantmaking to Existing Target Countries and Opening Grantmaking to the Pacific Click here for details

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    "On World Human Rights Day (December 10th), the Lancet has published an article describing health systems and the right to health in 194 countries click here to read the articlehttp:// www.facebook.com/ group.php? gid= 44154737699

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    A key finding of the report is that people with mental illnesses are frequently neglected and discriminated against. Of 98 countries for which data were available, almost half allocated 2% or less of their national budget to mental health."

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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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    You can submit information and news by clicking here news@globalmentalhealth.org

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In the Call for Action, the Lancet Global Mental Health Group has identified a set of core mental health indicators that were designed to monitor attainment of targets related to scaling up the coverage of basic, evidence-based services for mental disorders. These indicators allow each country to measure its own progress towards attaining the targets and allow comparison with other countries. The set of core indicators include five core and six secondary indicators. Taken together, these eleven indicators address the four most important goals that are necessary for the scaling up mentioned above, namely sufficient planning and investment for mental health; a sufficient workforce to provide mental health services; consistency of mental health care inputs and processes with best practices and human rights protection; and improved outcomes for people with mental disorders. In addition to this set of core indicators, there are a number of other important indicators and associated targets of progress towards scaling up coverage of basic, evidence-based services for mental disorders. It may be appropriate for a subset of these additional indicators to supplement the core set in a specific setting.

 
To search for Indicators for different countries visit the WHO Mental Health Atlas and WHO-AIMS.
 


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