Mental health

Key facts

• Affordable, effective and feasible strategies exist to promote, protect and restore mental health.
• The need for action on mental health is indisputable and urgent.
• Mental health has intrinsic and instrumental value and is integral to our well-being.
• Mental health is determined by a complex interplay of individual, social and structural stresses and vulnerabilities.

Information presented on this page has been replicated from the linked WHO fact sheet. Please always refer to the original source on who.int for the latest version. Last update: March 2024