Saint Lucia
Radio St. Lucia broadcast a discussion of mental health issues by a panel featuring a psychiatrist, a service user and a human rights activist. Information was also made available to the public through a mental health exhibition.
Saint Lucia
Radio St. Lucia broadcast a discussion of mental health issues by a panel featuring a psychiatrist, a service user and a human rights activist. Information was also made available to the public through a mental health exhibition.
(Last Updated On: ) Africa African Regional Council for Mental Health The African Regional Council has hired Petronella Ntambo Mayeya to run its Canadian-sponsored project for the development of mental health associations in Zambia, Zimbabwe and South Africa. She will also work on planning for a proposed regional conference in Uganda. She is based at…
(Last Updated On: ) Japan A volume on “Mental Health Japan” has been published in celebration of the 60th birthday of Kunihiko Asai, former Honorary Secretary of the WFMH Board member and organizer of the memorable World Congress in Makuhari, Chiba. The book is in English and aims to provide an overview of mental health…
(Last Updated On: ) Turkmenistan Aya Nepesova, M.D., of the Department of Psychiatry at the Turkmen State Medical Institute in Ashgabat, and Nelly Genefiko of the Addiction Reference Center provided a joint report of World Mental Health Day activities, which included a conference on 10 October, a hot-line telephone service, and the production of a…
(Last Updated On: ) Keeping Care Complete is the first international survey to shed light on experiences and insights of family caregivers of individuals with bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder. Caregivers from Australia, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States participated in the survey, which was developed by the…
(Last Updated On: ) Fourth Quarter 2001 Message from the WFMH President My dear readers, Research carried out recently in Finland, my home country, indicated that a person who has experienced injustice once in his or her life is more susceptible to mental ill health than others. Injustice can occur in the childhood home,…
(Last Updated On: ) Global Antistigma Programme of the World Psychiatric Association www.openthedoors.com Intellihealth www.intellihealth.com International Network of the Practices of Fight against Social Exclusion www.exclusion.net Internet Mental Health www.mentalhealth.com MedWeb: Mental Health Psyciatry/Psychology www.gen.emory.edu/medweb/medweb.mentalhealth.html Mental Health the Cornerstone of Health www.mentalhealth.org/cornerstone/index.cfm MIND www.mind.org.uk The National Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention of Mental Ill-Health…