An estimated 400 million people suffer from mental or neurological disorders or from
psychosocial problems such as those related to alcohol and drug abuse. Many of them …

We know from mortality statistics that over the last century human life expectancy has
increased as never before–though not always for the poor of the planet, who are still easy …

Fifty years ago, in one of the first and best major WHO reports, the psychiatrist, John Bowlby,
deplored the ''lack of conviction on the part of governments, social agencies, and the public …

It has become clichéd to say that mental health is undervalued, that little is done to promote
mental health or prevent mental health conditions from occurring, that mental health services …

The World Health Organization (WHO) releases yearly the World Health Report (1). This
publication provides an authoritative overview of the global health situation and …

This timely volume describes the emergence of a crisis in world mental health. It analyzes
the growing burden of mental, behavioral and social problems in low-income countries …

474 psychiatric nurse per 100,000 people. While high income countries have nine
psychiatrists per 100,000 people, this is one hundred and fifty times as many as for the lower …

Mental illness causes a substantial health burden in all regions of the world, and is a major
contributor to world poverty. Developing a National Mental Health Policy is designed to …

In the USA, the world's sliding superpower, the prisons are the functioning mental-health-
care system. Somewhere between a third and half of all the homeless people in American …

Objective–450 million people are estimated to suffer from neuropsychiatric conditions;
approximately 10–20% of all children seem to have one or more mental or behavioural …