mental health support in non-health settings, including child protection services, school health programmes, and prisons. The vast care gap for common mental health conditions such as depression and anxiety means countries must also explore innovative approaches to expand and diversify care.
WHO’s Mental Health Atlas is a periodic survey and report of countries’ mental health policies and programmes, laws, information systems, financing, workforce and services.
Over a billion people living with mental health conditions – services ...
Enhance mental health services. Ensure access to confidential, non-judgmental and affordable mental health services which can address issues arising from problematic digital technology use. Promote open dialogue. Encourage conversations about digital well-being within families, schools and communities to reduce stigma and increase awareness.
WHO advocates for a comprehensive response to the mental health needs of children and young people, with a focus on strengthening policies and legislation; promoting enabling environments (in homes, schools, communities, workplaces and digital spaces) and building preventive and care services.
USA Today: How Team USA has evolved mental health services for Olympians
WHO fact sheet on mental disorders, including sections on anxiety disorders, depression, bipolar disorder, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, schizophrenia, eating disorders, disruptive behaviour and dissocial disorders, neurodevelopmental disorders, risk factors, health systems and social support, as well as WHO's work in these areas.
Mental health is a state of mental well-being that enables people to cope with the stresses of life, realize their abilities, learn well and work well, and contribute to their community. It has intrinsic and instrumental value and is integral to our well-being. At any one time, a diverse set of individual, family, community and structural factors may combine to protect or undermine mental ...
The document is an opening commentary authored by Dévora Kestel, Director of the Department of Mental Health, Brain Health, and Substance Use at the World Health Organisation. It discusses the prominence of mental health in the preparations for the upcoming UN General Assembly high-level meeting on noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) in September 2025.
Mental health and NCDs: A shared but differentiated agenda for the 2025 ...
Leaders from across the world at the Eightieth United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) have adopted the political declaration to combat noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and mental health challenges through a fully integrated approach. This is the outcome of the intergovernmental negotiations in advance of and considered by the fourth high-level meeting of the UNGA on the prevention and control ...
Mental health Mental health is an integral part of health; it is more than the absence of mental illnesses. It is the foundation for well-being and effective functioning of individuals. It includes mental well-being, prevention of mental disorders, treatment and rehabilitation. WHO estimates that the burden of mental health problems in India is 2443 disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) per ...
Good mental health is related to mental and psychological well-being. WHO’s work to improve the mental health of individuals and society at large includes the promotion of mental well-being, the prevention of mental disorders, the protection of human rights and the care of people affected by mental disorders.
WHO’s Mental Health Policy and Strategic Action Plan Guidance and WHO/OHCHR Mental Health, Human Rights and Legislation provide complementary, rights-based frameworks for reform. Both call for coordinated policy and legislative changes to close care gaps, eliminate coercion, and build systems rooted in dignity, autonomy, and inclusion.
Mental health is critically important for everyone, everywhere, and goes beyond the mere absence of a mental health condition. It is integral to well-being, enabling people to realize their full potential, show resilience amidst adversity, be productive across the various settings of daily life, form meaningful relationships and contribute to their communities.
More than 1 billion people are living with mental health disorders, according to new data released by the World Health Organization (WHO), with conditions such as anxiety and depression inflicting immense human and economic tolls.
World Mental Health Day,10 October 2025 Mental health in humanitarian emergencies World Mental Health Day serves as a powerful reminder that there is no health without mental health. This year’s campaign focuses on the urgent need to support the mental health and psychosocial needs of people affected by humanitarian emergencies. Crises such as natural disasters, conflicts, and public health ...
A significant number of U.S. Olympians and Paralympians are expected to face mental health concerns leading up to the 2026 Winter Games. The USOPC has expanded its mental health resources, increasing ...
Mental health is more than the absence of mental disorders. Mental health is an integral part of health; indeed, there is no health without mental health. Mental health is determined by a range of socioeconomic, biological and environmental factors. Cost-effective public health and intersectoral strategies and interventions exist to promote, protect and restore mental health.
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Across our nation, Americans are facing a mental health crisis, which was only exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. And rural states like North Dakota are at a particular disadvantage, dut to a ...
EurekAlert!: Researchers identify three psychological profiles that could determine the evolution of mental, cognitive and brain health in ageing
An international study published in the journal Nature Mental Health has identified three psychological profiles associated with different patterns of cognitive and brain decline in ageing. The study, ...
Researchers identify three psychological profiles that could determine the evolution of mental, cognitive and brain health in ageing
The Hill: Despite growing popularity, school mental health days are only allowed in these 12 states
The COVID-19 pandemic brought youth mental health to the forefront of the national conversation as increased isolation and online school exacerbated an already growing crisis. The situation became so ...
Despite growing popularity, school mental health days are only allowed in these 12 states
New Scientist: Is youth mental health really worse today than it was decades ago?
Young people’s mental health “has entered a dangerous phase” and “now might be our last chance to act”, scientists have written in the journal The Lancet. They argue that accumulating evidence ...