Lancet

Response to the Lancet Commission on global mental health and sustainable development by Akriti Mehta

Author: Akriti Mehta More than ten years after the publication of a series of articles published in the Lancet[1]that heralded in the age of global mental health, a report of The Lancet Commission on global mental health and sustainable development[2] was released at the Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit[3] in London. It seeks to reframe mental health […]

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Special Rapporteur Catalina Devandas response to the Lancet Commission on Global Mental Health on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

In her response to the Lancet Commission on Global Mental Health that was released yesterday, Ms Devandas puts forward very clear message, that the report “fails to understand the potential of the CRPD to reframe, transform and enhance the global response to mental health in light of the rights of persons with disabilities.\” She highlights the Commission

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