Report
26 Nov 2018
This report aims to increase awareness of the public health significance of suicide and suicide attempts, to make suicide prevention a higher priority on the global public health agenda, and to encourage and support countries to develop or strengthen...
Guide
26 Nov 2018
This document is a guide for people who would like to initiate suicide prevention activities in their community. It describes a participatory bottom-up process by which communities can work together to identify, prioritize and implement activities th...
Report
26 Nov 2018
This resolution provides general information about epilepsy, an overview of current pilot projects as examples of what can be achieved, and actions that can be taken by specific stakeholder groups with reference to WHA68.20.
Report
26 Nov 2018
This report documents the success achieved in reducing the epilepsy treatment gap by managing epilepsy at a primary health-care level in China. It also presents the lessons derived for the development of effective and sustainable epilepsy scaling up...
Guide
26 Nov 2018
These training manuals were created to support implementation of the mhGAP Intervention Guide for mental, neurological and substance use (MNS) disorders in non-specialized health settings, version 2.0. They can be used to build capacity among non-spe...
Guide
26 Nov 2018
This manual is the first volume of WHO’s new series on low-intensity psychological interventions. It outlines an evidence-based approach describing how community health workers can reduce prenatal depression through evidence-based cognitive-behavio...
Report
26 Nov 2018
This report explores potential reasons for this apparent contradiction between cherished human values and observed social actions view to better formulating concrete steps that governments and other stakeholders can take to reshape social attitudes a...
Publication
26 Nov 2018
This document provides advice on mental health and psychosocial need assessment. It offers an approach that should help assessors review information that is already available and only collect new data that will be of practical use.
Publication
26 Nov 2018
This document is for humanitarian health actors working at national and sub-national level in countries facing humanitarian emergencies. It gives an overview of essential knowledge that humanitarian health actors should have about mental health and p...
Guide
26 Nov 2018
This guide covers psychological first aid which involves humane, supportive and practical help to fellow human beings suffering serious crisis events. It gives a framework for supporting people in ways that respect their dignity, culture and abilitie...
Guide
26 Nov 2018
This report provides detailed accounts from 10 diverse emergency-affected areas on the impact of emergency situations on mental health problems and the weakening of existing mental health infrastructure. It also summarizes key overlapping practices e...
Publication
26 Nov 2018
This intervention guide contains first-line management recommendations for mental, neurological and substance use conditions for non-specialist health-care providers in humanitarian emergencies where access to specialists and treatment options is lim...
