Mental health: strengthening our response
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- More than 450 million people suffer from mental disorders. Many more have mental problems.
- Mental health is an integral part of health; indeed, there is no health without mental health.
- Mental health is more than the absence of mental disorders.
- Mental health is determined by socio-economic, biological and environmental factors.
- Cost-effective intersectoral strategies and interventions exist to promote mental health.
Mental health is an integral and essential component of health. The WHO constitution states: ‘Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.’ An important consequence of this definition is that mental health is described as more than the absence of mental disorders or disabilities.
Mental health is a state of wellbeing in which an individual realises his or her own abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and is able to make a contribution to hi...
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