Mental health and development

• From: Department for International Development
• Published: 1 January 2010

• Document Type: Briefing
• Theme: Health

Abstract

The purpose of the Mental Health and Poverty Project is to develop, implement and evaluate mental health policy in poor countries, in order to provide new knowledge regarding comprehensive multisectoral approaches to breaking the negative cycle of poverty and mental ill-health. This policy brief is structured around the following headings:
1. Mental health: central to human development
2. Mental health and the Millennium Development Goals
3. Mental health conditions and vulnerability
4. What needs to be done?
5. Mental Health and Development

Citation

Mental Health and Poverty Project Policy Brief No. 14, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, 8 pp.

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Mental health and development

Published 1 January 2010