WHO plans care guide For community mental health

Oct 7

Ahead of World Mental Health Day on October 10, Tedros says WHO is focusing on people with lived experience of mental-health conditions, particularly institutional care. He says they are often excluded from system-design decisions and may spend months, years or decades involuntarily in psychiatric hospitals. WHO plans to launch a practical guide that week to help countries move towards person-centred community care respecting people's rights and choices. This passage announces a forthcoming guide; it does not report its completed launch or completed national care reforms.

On October 7, ahead of World Mental Health Day, Tedros announces that WHO will launch a practical guide that week to help countries move from institutional psychiatric care towards person-centred community care respecting rights and choices. He stresses including people with lived experience in decisions and describes the harms of prolonged involuntary institutionalization. The occurrence is this announcement; the guide's release and national care-system changes have not yet occurred in the broadcast.