The World Health Organization (WHO) celebrated its seventh annual World Mental Health Day on October 10. The organization uses this date to call attention to the need for the entire world to recognize the international impact of mental health disorders on the global economy and human rights. To support this initiative, the WHO created a 2013-2020 Comprehensive Mental Health Action Plan with four major objectives: strengthen effective leadership and governance for mental health; provide comprehensive, integrated and responsive mental health and social care services in community-based settings; implement strategies for promotion and prevention in mental health; and strengthen information systems, evidence and research for mental health.
We believe that mental health is central to the well-being of every society, carrying with it an enormous impact not only on emotional but physical health, often far more than realized.
[For more of this story, written by Michele Nealon-Woods, go to http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...be26e4b096e870696987]
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