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TRANSCULTURAL MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES AND INFORMATION
Multicultural Mental Health Australia (MMHA) has released a number of new mental health resources with a couple of leading agencies. MMHA launched its “What Is…” series of mental health fact sheets in over 20 languages at the recent Diversity In Health Conference in Sydney. The 10 topics cover issues surrounding mental illness, anxiety, bipolar…
~World Mental Health Day Report 1998~
Overview: Mental Health and Human Rights 10 October 1998 WFMH’s theme for World Mental Health Day, cosponsored by the World Health Organization, was tied to the 50th Anniversary of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Concern for the human rights of the mentally ill is an integral part of the history of WFMH,…
News from the Regions
African Regional Council/WFMH Africa A project to support persons with disabilities, submitted by a partnership of WFMHs African Regional Council and the Canadian Mental Health Association to the Canadian International Agency for Development (CIDA) in August 1998, was approved for funding in December 1999. The project is designed to strengthen the African Regional Councils linkages…
News From the Region
Africa Mental Health Promotion Project MHASISA (Mental Health Action Strategies in Southern Africa for Persons with Disabilities) is a three-year project funded by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) in partnership with the Canadian Mental Health Association and four African partner organizations: the WFMH African Regional Council, the Mental Health Association of Zambia, the South…
News From the Region
Western Pacific WFMH Representatives Visit Taiwan In July President Elect Pirkko Lahti and Nancy Wallace, WFMH’s Main Representative at UN NY, participated in a conference on disaster management in Taiwan at the invitation of Regional Vice President Chueh Chang. The conference “Disaster and Mental Health: Interactions among Government, NGOs and International Organizations” on 29-30 July…
The Relationship between Physical and Mental Health: Co-occurring Disorders
“Seventeenth-century philosopher Rene Descartes conceptualized the distinction between the mind and the body. He viewed the “mind” as completely separable from the “body” And for almost two centuries, mental health advocates have been trying to put them back together This separation between so-called “mental” and” physical” health has no real relevance to the scientific…