Search results
ipcc.ch
- The Atlas of health and climate provides sound scientific information on the connections between weather and climate and major health challenges. These range from diseases of poverty to emergencies arising from extreme weather events and disease outbreaks.
fctc.who.int › publications › i
People also ask
What is the mental health Atlas?
Where is mental health atlas published?
What is Project Atlas?
What does the World Health Organization's new mental health Atlas tell us?
health resources across all countries. The first set of publications from the project were Atlas: Mental Health Resources in the World, 2001 and Atlas: Country Profiles on Mental Health Resources in the World, 2001. Several updates have been published subsequently. The WHO Mental Health Atlas has
- Lack of Progress in Leadership, Governance and Financing
- Transfer of Care to The Community Is Slow
- Increase in Mental Health Promotion, But Effectiveness Questionable
- Slight Increase in The Mental Health Workforce
- New Targets For 2030
- Note For Editors
None of the targets for effective leadership and governance for mental health, provision of mental health services in community-based settings, mental health promotion and prevention, and strengthening of information systems, were close to being achieved. In 2020, just 51% of WHO’s 194 Member States reported that their mental health policy or plan ...
While the systematic decentralization of mental health care to community settings has long been recommended by WHO, only 25% of responding countries met all the criteria for integration of mental health into primary care. While progress has been made in training and supervision in most countries, the supply of medicines for mental health conditions...
More encouraging was the increase in countries reporting mental health promotion and prevention programmes, from 41% of Member States in 2014 to 52% in 2020. However, 31% of total reported programmes did not have dedicated human and financial resources, 27% did not have a defined plan, and 39% had no documented evidence of progress and/or impact.
The global median number of mental health workers per 100 000 population has increased slightly from nine workers in 2014 to 13 workers per 100 000 population in 2020. However, there was a very high variation between countries of different income levels, with the number of mental health workers in high-income countries more than 40 times higher tha...
The global targets reported on in the Mental Health Atlas are from WHO’s Comprehensive Mental Health Action Plan, which contained targets for 2020 endorsed by the World Health Assembly in 2013. This Plan has now been extended to 2030 and includes new targets for the inclusion of mental health and psychosocial support in emergency preparedness plans...
The Atlas is being released in the lead-up to World Mental Health Day on 10 October, for which the focus this year is scaling up access to quality mental health care.
World Health Organization Description: In a single electronic platform, the WHO’s Communicable Disease Global Atlas is bringing together for analysis and comparison standardized data and statistics for infectious diseases at country, regional, and global levels.
Prevention and Management, Chronic Diseases and Health Promotion, World Health Organization. The views expressed in this publication do not necessarily represent the decisions, policy or views of the World Health Organization. This publication was supported in part by a grant from the Open Society Foundations’ International
Global Atlas o Palliative Care 2nd Edition www.thewhpca.org. Estimates of people in need of palliative care worldwide. The total, all age, global need for palliative care is 56,840,123 people including both decedents and non-decedents.
Apr 15, 2018 · Mental Health Atlas is a project of the World Health Organization. The overall vision and conceptualization of the project is provided by Shekhar Saxena. Mental health Atlas 2017 is the latest in a series of publications that first appeared in 2001, with subsequent updates published in 2005, 2011 and 2014.
Jul 1, 2014 · Director, Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland WHO’s Mental Health Atlas series has already established itself as the single most comprehensive and most widely used source of global information on mental health situation. This new edition of Mental Health Atlas, carried out in 2014,
