Mental health: news

• Dementia cases set to triple by 2050 but still largely ignored
  11 April 2012
• WHO highlights global underinvestment in mental health care
  7 October 2011
• New psychological first aid guide to strengthen humanitarian relief
  Improving the mental health of disaster affected populations
  16 August 2011
• WHO simplifies treatment of mental and neurological disorders
  New Intervention guide to facilitate the management of depression, alcohol use disorders, epilepsy and other common mental disorders in the primary health-care setting
  7 October 2010
• People with mental disabilities cannot be forgotten
  WHO urges development programmes to include people with mental and psychosocial disabilities
  16 September 2010
• Need to address mental disorders in children
  WHO calls for action on World Autism Awareness Day
  2 April 2009
• Millions with mental disorders deprived of treatment and care
  WHO calls for urgent scaling up of services for mental disorders, especially in the developing world
  9 October 2008