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As with other groups that are likely to be seen as separate and different from the “mainstream”, members of the general public often make certain assumptions about older people — without taking the time to look at each person as unique and individual. Older people who suffer with mental disabilities may, as a result, be…
Dear Friends, Recent research has shown clearly how serious it is to neglect mental health in the workplace. Job burnout is costing nations billions of dollars, according to results presented at the conference and Symposium held at the ILO on 9-10 October. Two major UN agencies, the ILO and WHO, supported the Symposium. Mental Health…
NATIONAL FOCAL POINTS Natalie Lavery Manager, Senior Citizen Unit Social Policy Agency Department of Social Welfare Private Bag 21, Wellington NEW ZEALAND Tel: 64 4 471 0321 Fax: 64 4 472 4543 The Secretary Committee for International Year of Older Persons c/o Family Development Division 512 Thomson Road #14-00, MCD Bldg. Singapore 298136 SINGAPORE Tel:…
Namibia Antonia Kangumine of the Ministry of Health and Social Services wrote from Windhoek that mental health care in her country was in a developing stage, and that the Ministry was considering the World Mental Health Day kit’s material on the protection of persons with mental illness. She added that to mark the Day “people…
“The world was sick, and the ills from which it was suffering were mainly due to the perversion of man, his inability to live at peace with himself.” George Brock Chisholm It was the first Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) who suggested that the World Federation of Mental Health (WFMH) be…
Eastern Mediterranean Prevention of Substance Abuse In June WFMHs Eastern Mediterranean Regional Council (EMRC) joined with the Arab Federation for NGOs for the Prevention of Substance Abuse to organize a regional conference on substance abuse. (The Arab Federation was founded in 1996 by an initiative of the WFMH Committee to Combat Substance Abuse and the…