"Our highest mental health priority right now is to have face-to-face assessments done, by professionals, after redeployment".
Since 1999, suicide prevention has been listed as a mental health priority of the Ministry of Health in China [ 33].
2 Even though evidence-based packages of care for these disorders have been identified, 3 the actual delivery of treatments in resource-constrained settings remains a challenge 4 and is a global mental health priority.
Psychotic disorders pose a substantial burden of disability in low- and middle-income countries 13 and providing effective, affordable and acceptable services in resource-constrained settings is a global mental health priority.
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The aim of this study is to generate a systematic, integrated report of the mental health priorities in Vietnam, using the Mental Health Country Profile template.
In the focus-group sessions we held to gauge environ-mental health priorities of the local popu-la-tion, participants rated risks to workers in industry, agriculture, and construction as one of the three most important environmental health issues their nation is facing, along with outdoor and indoor air pollution (MacDonald Gibson and Farah 2012; Willis et al. 2010).
The party said it would end the "creeping privatisation" of the NHS and make mental health a priority.
The vice president asked the crowd for its votes, saying that he wanted a "mandate" to make mental health a priority in his administration.
I asked Dr Michelle Funk about the challenge of making mental health a priority for governments with so many other pressing issues.
The government has made children's mental health a priority with additional funding, and a new compulsory health education that is intended to teach children how to look after their mental wellbeing and recognise when friends are struggling.
