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The summit commits to promoting access to quality evidence-based mental health care integrated across health and social care.
Promote access to and quality of evidence-based primary, secondary and specialist mental health care, which is integrated across health and social care to meet the needs of local communities and encourage the progression towards Universal Health Coverage.
Service · Commitment statement · From Report on the Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit 2018 — 2018 Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit, page 33
The summit calls for the development of a WHO Mental Health Action Plan beyond 2020.
Call for the development and implementation of a WHO Mental Health Action Plan beyond 2020 through either the extension of the current WHO Mental Health Action Plan 2013-2020 or a new WHO Mental Health Action Plan beyond 2020, including evaluation of the Action Plan for 2013-20.
Policy · Commitment statement · From Report on the Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit 2018 — 2018 Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit, page 33
The summit aims to promote equality for mental health and recognize the link between mental and physical health.
Promote the need for equality for mental health and recognition of the links between mental and physical health in achieving health and wellbeing.
Policy · Commitment statement · From Report on the Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit 2018 — 2018 Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit, page 33
The summit commits to promoting mental health through prevention, treatment, and recovery.
Take a comprehensive approach to mental health from promotion through prevention, treatment, long-term care of, and recovery from mental disorders, other mental health conditions and including concurrent substance misuse disorders.
Policy · Commitment statement · From Report on the Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit 2018 — 2018 Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit, page 33
Stigma and discrimination harm individuals with mental disorders, leading to social exclusion.
Stigma, prejudice and discrimination experienced by individuals with mental disorders and other mental health conditions cause harm and exclusion from society and the workplace.
Context · Observational claim · From Report on the Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit 2018 — 2018 Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit, page 33
Mental health cannot be separated from physical health for achieving Universal Health Coverage.
Mental health cannot be separated from physical health. Treating the two as linked and equal is critical for progress towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC) as described in the Sustainable Development Goals.
Policy · Policy statement · From Report on the Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit 2018 — 2018 Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit, page 31
Improvements in mental health can be made using locally appropriate evidence.
Using the best locally appropriate evidence, huge improvements in mental health can be made.
Policy · Policy statement · From Report on the Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit 2018 — 2018 Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit, page 30
People with lived experience should be involved in all stages of research design and implementation.
To improve mental health, it is essential to fully involve people with a diverse range of experience of mental health conditions in decisions on what is researched and throughout the design, conduct and implementation of research.
Policy · Policy statement · From Report on the Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit 2018 — 2018 Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit, page 30
Research in mental health is crucial for improving prevention and treatment.
Research will lead to substantial improvements in prevention and treatment of mental health.
Policy · Policy statement · From Report on the Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit 2018 — 2018 Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit, page 29
Access to evidence-based interventions should be prioritized for mental health conditions.
People should have access to evidence-based interventions. This includes psychological and social interventions and medicines.
Policy · Policy statement · From Report on the Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit 2018 — 2018 Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit, page 26
People with mental health conditions should be involved in the design and delivery of services.
People with mental health conditions should be at the centre of the mental health response, and be involved in the design, implementation, delivery and evaluation of personal recovery-focused mental health care and services.
Policy · Policy statement · From Report on the Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit 2018 — 2018 Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit, page 26
Community-based mental health services should be prioritized over hospital-based care.
There was general consensus that mental health services should be provided in the community with hospital-based services being a specialist, time-limited option for people who need them.
Policy · Policy statement · From Report on the Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit 2018 — 2018 Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit, page 25
Mental health care should be central to universal health coverage policies.
Mental health care and services must be central to the policy and delivery across all areas of universal health coverage.
Policy · Policy statement · From Report on the Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit 2018 — 2018 Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit, page 25
A learning experience should be created for legislators and policy makers to understand mental health conditions from the perspective of lived experience.
A learning experience to enable all legislators, government policy makers and legislators to have a basic understanding of mental health conditions should be created and delivered by people with lived experience of mental health conditions.
Commissioning · Policy statement · From Report on the Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit 2018 — 2018 Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit, page 21
Mental health should be put on an equal footing with physical health in terms of funding and profile.
Policies and programmes ensuring that mental health is a part of the public health approach, with equitable funding at all levels, should be adopted. Mental health should be put on an equal footing with physical health (in terms of funding and profile) in all countries regardless of income and a prevention/promotion approach taken as is the case with physical health.
Policy · Policy statement · From Report on the Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit 2018 — 2018 Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit, page 21
Experts with lived experience should be involved in developing, implementing and monitoring mental health law, policy and practice.
There should be full, diverse and effective participation of experts by experience in the leadership groups responsible for developing, implementing and monitoring mental health law, policy and practice at all levels and across all relevant sectors.
Governance · Policy statement · From Report on the Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit 2018 — 2018 Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit, page 21
All nations should publish baseline data for Sustainable Development Goal mental health related indicators and commit to halving suicide rates by 2030.
Recommendation 1: All nations should publish 2015 baseline data for Sustainable Development Goal mental health related indicators: (1) suicide reduction, (2) alcohol-use disorder coverage/treatment rate, and (3) drug-use disorder coverage/treatment rate, and to commit to halve (1) and double (2) and (3) by 2030.
Metric · Policy statement · From Report on the Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit 2018 — 2018 Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit, page 21
Governments should leverage investment from multiple sectors to address mental health as a basic human right.
Recommendation 4: Governments should leverage investment from multiple sectors to address mental health across the life course as a basic human right.
Policy · Policy statement · From Report on the Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit 2018 — 2018 Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit, page 18
Donor countries, the private sector and charities should collaborate with domestic governments to scale up mental health services.
Donor countries, the private sector and charities should play a critical role in scaling up through new co-financing arrangements with domestic governments to bring mental health to scale.
Commissioning · Policy statement · From Report on the Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit 2018 — 2018 Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit, page 17
Investment in mental health should be paired with measurement of outcomes using benchmarks like the World Bank Group’s Human Capital Index.
Investment should be paired with measurement of mental health outcomes. The current efforts such as the World Bank Group’s Human Capital Index and OECD’s Mental Health Performance Benchmarking are potential opportunities that should be supported by government.
Metric · Policy statement · From Report on the Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit 2018 — 2018 Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit, page 17