New WHO guidance calls for urgent transformation of mental health policies

2025-04-04 - 2025-04

While effective prevention and treatment interventions exist, most people living with mental health conditions do not have access to these. The new WHO guidance sets out concrete actions to help countries close these gaps and ensure mental health is promoted and protected, with a focus on: protecting and upholding human rights, ensuring mental health policies and services are aligned with international human rights standards; promoting holistic care with an emphasis on lifestyle and physical health, psychological, social, and economic interventions; addressing social and economic factors that shape and affect mental health including employment, housing and education; implementing prevention strategies and promote population-wide mental health and well-being; and ensuring people with lived experience are empowered to participate in policy planning and design to ensure mental health policies and services are responsive to their needs. The guidance identifies five key policy areas requiring urgent reform: leadership and governance, service organization, workforce development, person-centered interventions, and addressing social and structural determinants of mental health.

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