Mental Health Day 2023

1. World Mental Health Day
•World Mental Health Day was observed for the first time
on 10 October 1992.
•The day, officially commemorated every year on October
10, aims to raise awareness in the global community
about the critical mental health agendas.
•It was started as an annual activity of the World
Federation for Mental Health.
•In 1994, at the suggestion of then Secretary-General
Eugene Brody, a theme for the Day was used for the first
time. It was “Improving the Quality of Mental Health
Services throughout the World.
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2. Themes
1994- Improving the Quality of Mental Health Services
throughout the World
1996- Women and Mental Health
1997- Children and Mental Health
1998- Mental Health and Human Rights
1999- Mental Health and Ageing
2000-01- Mental Health and Work
2002- The Effects of Trauma and Violence on Children &
Adolescents
2003- Emotional and Behavioural Disorders of Children &
Adolescents
2004- The Relationship Between Physical and Mental Health:
co-occurring disorders
2005- Mental and Physical Health Across the Life Span
2006- Building Awareness –Reducing Risk: Mental Illness &
Suicide
2007- Mental Health in A Changing World: The Impact of
Culture and Diversity
2008 – Making Mental Health a Global Priority: Scaling up
Services through Citizen Advocacy and Action
2009 – Mental Health in Primary Care: Enhancing Treatment
and Promoting Mental Health
2010- Mental Health and Chronic Physical Illnesses
2011- The Great Push: Investing in Mental Health
2012- Depression: A Global Crisis
2013- Mental Health and Older Adults
2014- Living With Schizophrenia
2015- Dignity in Mental Health
2016- Psychological and Mental Health First Aid
2017- Mental Health in the Workplace
2018- Young People and Mental Health in a Changing World
2019- Mental Health Promotion and Suicide Prevention
2020- Mental Health for all – Greater investment – Greater
access
2021- Mental Health in an Unequal World
2022- Make mental health & well-being for all a global priority
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3. Mental Health is a Universal Human Right
• Mental health is vital to humanity, allowing us to lead
fulfilling lives and contribute fully to our communities.
• Yet one in eight people around the world lives with a
mental health condition, with women and young people
being disproportionately impacted.
• Three in four people affected receive inadequate
treatment – or no care at all.
• And many face stigma and discrimination.
• Mental health is not a privilege but a fundamental human
right – and must be part of universal health coverage.
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4. Mental Health is a Universal Human Right
• Governments must provide care that promotes people’s
recovery and upholds their rights.
• This includes:
• Strengthening community-based support
• Integrating psychological help into broader health
• Social care.
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5. Mental Health is a Universal Human Right
• Governments must provide care that promotes people’s
recovery and upholds their rights.
• This includes:
• Strengthening community-based support
• Integrating psychological help into broader health
• Social care.
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6. “Our Minds, Our Rights”
• World Mental Health Day 2023 is an opportunity for
people and communities to unite behind the theme
‘Mental health is a universal human right” to improve
knowledge, raise awareness and drive actions that
promote and protect everyone’s mental health as a
universal human right.
• Mental health is a basic human right for all people.
Everyone, whoever and wherever they are, has a right to
the highest attainable standard of mental health.
• This includes the right to be protected from mental health
risks, the right to available, accessible, acceptable, and
good quality care, and the right to liberty, independence
and inclusion in the community.
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7. “Our Minds, Our Rights”
• This includes;
• the right to be protected from mental health risks
• the right to available, accessible, acceptable, and good
quality care
• the right to liberty, independence and inclusion in the
community.
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8. “Our Minds, Our Rights”
• Having a mental health condition should never be a
reason to deprive a person of their human rights or to
exclude them from decisions about their own health.
• Yet all over the world, people with mental health
conditions continue to experience a wide range of human
rights violations.
• Many are excluded from community life and
discriminated against, while many more cannot access the
mental health care they need or can only access care that
violates their human rights.
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9. Need for Actions
• We must tackle :
• abuses
• break down the barriers that prevent people from seeking
support.
• we must address root causes;
• Poverty
• Inequality
• Violence
• Discrimination
• create more compassionate and resilient societies.
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10. Let us reaffirm and uphold
Mental Health as a Universal
Human Right, and together,
build a healthier world where
everyone can thrive.
ThankYou