Policies and Practices for Mental Health in Europe 14/11/2008
A report published by WHO Regional Office for Europe and co-funded by the European Commission, provides data not hitherto available on mental health policy and practice across the European Region. It also highlights important information gaps.
Policies and practices for mental health in Europe allows for country to country comparisons on indicators such as numbers of psychiatrists, financing, community services, training of workforce, prescription of anti-depressants and representation of users and carers. Data for the 42 Member States involved was obtained from ministries of health.
Europe's Wealth of Unhappiness 14/11/2008
The European Voice in their last health quarterly, chose mental health as the core topic where interesting messages and issues are raised by WHO and Commission experts on this subject.
The Relationship between Physical and Mental Health 08/10/2008
The Highland Users Group (HUG) has produced a short guide to the subject of maintaining good physical health while living with a mental health problem. Entitled "Mental and Physical Health: the Views of HUG on the Relationship Between Physical and Mental Health and What Can Keep Us Healthy"
The State of Mental Health Across the EU 30/07/2008
The EU has recently published a set of overviews, by individual country, on the situation of Mental Health Promotion and Mental Disease Prevention developed so far in each of the EU countries and activities to date.