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Launching a Movement for Global Mental Health on World Mental Health Day
In 1992, the World Federation for Mental Health established October 10 as World mental Health Day. The theme of this year's WMHD (October 10) is "Making Mental Health a Global Priority - Scaling Up Services through Citizen Advocacy and Action", and uses information from a Lancet Series to encourage renewed efforts for well-informed mental-health public policy advocacy at all levels in all countries.
Last year, the Lancet published a series of five articles on global mental health documenting the ...
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