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Declaration on mental health in Africa: moving to implementation
Urgent action is needed to address mental health issues globally. In Africa, where mental health disorders account for a huge burden of disease and disability, and where in general less than 1% of the already small health budgets are spent on these disorders, the need for action is acute and urgent....
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Co-Action Publishing
2014
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4058779/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24931476 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/gha.v7.24589 |
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author | Daar, Abdallah S. Jacobs, Marian Wall, Stig Groenewald, Johann Eaton, Julian Patel, Vikram dos Santos, Palmira Kagee, Ashraf Gevers, Anik Sunkel, Charlene Andrews, Gail Daniels, Ingrid Ndetei, David |
author_facet | Daar, Abdallah S. Jacobs, Marian Wall, Stig Groenewald, Johann Eaton, Julian Patel, Vikram dos Santos, Palmira Kagee, Ashraf Gevers, Anik Sunkel, Charlene Andrews, Gail Daniels, Ingrid Ndetei, David |
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description | Urgent action is needed to address mental health issues globally. In Africa, where mental health disorders account for a huge burden of disease and disability, and where in general less than 1% of the already small health budgets are spent on these disorders, the need for action is acute and urgent. Members of the World Health Organization, including African countries, have adopted a Comprehensive Mental Health Action Plan. Africa now has an historic opportunity to improve the mental health and wellbeing of its citizens, beginning with provision of basic mental health services and development of national mental health strategic plans (roadmaps). There is need to integrate mental health into primary health care and address stigma and violations of human rights. We advocate for inclusion of mental health into the post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals, and for the convening of a special UN General Assembly High Level Meeting on Mental Health within three years. |
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spelling | pubmed-40587792014-06-23 Declaration on mental health in Africa: moving to implementation Daar, Abdallah S. Jacobs, Marian Wall, Stig Groenewald, Johann Eaton, Julian Patel, Vikram dos Santos, Palmira Kagee, Ashraf Gevers, Anik Sunkel, Charlene Andrews, Gail Daniels, Ingrid Ndetei, David Glob Health Action Current Debate Urgent action is needed to address mental health issues globally. In Africa, where mental health disorders account for a huge burden of disease and disability, and where in general less than 1% of the already small health budgets are spent on these disorders, the need for action is acute and urgent. Members of the World Health Organization, including African countries, have adopted a Comprehensive Mental Health Action Plan. Africa now has an historic opportunity to improve the mental health and wellbeing of its citizens, beginning with provision of basic mental health services and development of national mental health strategic plans (roadmaps). There is need to integrate mental health into primary health care and address stigma and violations of human rights. We advocate for inclusion of mental health into the post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals, and for the convening of a special UN General Assembly High Level Meeting on Mental Health within three years. Co-Action Publishing 2014-06-16 /pmc/articles/PMC4058779/ /pubmed/24931476 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/gha.v7.24589 Text en © 2014 Abdallah S. Daar et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Current Debate Daar, Abdallah S. Jacobs, Marian Wall, Stig Groenewald, Johann Eaton, Julian Patel, Vikram dos Santos, Palmira Kagee, Ashraf Gevers, Anik Sunkel, Charlene Andrews, Gail Daniels, Ingrid Ndetei, David Declaration on mental health in Africa: moving to implementation |
title | Declaration on mental health in Africa: moving to implementation |
title_full | Declaration on mental health in Africa: moving to implementation |
title_fullStr | Declaration on mental health in Africa: moving to implementation |
title_full_unstemmed | Declaration on mental health in Africa: moving to implementation |
title_short | Declaration on mental health in Africa: moving to implementation |
title_sort | declaration on mental health in africa: moving to implementation |
topic | Current Debate |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4058779/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24931476 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/gha.v7.24589 |
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