Global Mental Health Prevention and Promotion
This international survey defines mental health as a basic human right, and tracks the emergence of mental health prevention and promotion as a global priority. Locating mental illness within a cycle of negative causes and effects affecting human quality
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obal Mental Health Prevention and Promotion
Global Mental Health
Sabine Bährer-Kohler Francisco Javier Carod-Artal Editors
Global Mental Health Prevention and Promotion
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Editors Sabine Bährer-Kohler Dr. Bährer-Kohler & Partners Basel Switzerland
ISBN 978-3-319-59122-3 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-59123-0
Francisco Javier Carod-Artal International University of Catalonia Barcelona Spain
ISBN 978-3-319-59123-0
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We are grateful to the publishers and all co-authors, especially Prof. Amering for their valuable contributions and their cooperation with us. Many thanks to our families for their understanding and their cordial support.
Foreword I
The process towards and the adoption of the 2030 Global agenda for sustainable development has enabled mental health to finally emerge as an international priority to secure health, well-being, and human development. This political recognition of mental health is an indication of the growing awareness and agreement amongst a global set of stakeholders including governments, policymakers, mental health professionals and scholars, human rights advocates, and individuals who use mental health services that there is a need to meaningfully invest in the mental health and well-being of individuals and societies.1 At the conceptual level, there appears to be a consensus that more focus on the current global state of mental health is necessary and for the need to develop a more robust set of responses to promote and address mental health at the community level. Over t
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