Mental Health: Let's put plans into action
by José Miguel Caldas de Almeidam, Coordinator, Joint Action on Mental Health and Well-being
The need to include mental health among the first priorities of the public health agenda has been increasingly recognized in Europe over the past decades and has long been a priority of the European Commission. Over a decade ago, the Commission's Health and Consumers Directorate published a Green Paper on developing an EU strategy on mental health and more recently, in 2008, it launched the European Pact for Mental Health and Well-being, which is now available in 22 languages.
Building on the work done so far, a Joint Action for Mental Health and Well-being was launched in 2013. It aims at building a
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