Mental Health Project

The Mental Health Project (MH) is a technical unit of PAHO, within the Area of Sustainable Development and Environmental Health (SDE), which promotes, coordinates and implements technical cooperation activities directed to strengthen the national capacities to develop policies, plans, programs and services, thus contributing to promote mental health, reduce the burden of the psychic diseases, prevent disabilities, and develop rehabilitation.
Last Updated ( Thursday, 22 December 2011 )
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Mandates and Declarations

Resolutions of the Directing Council of the Pan American Health Organization:

Strategy and Plan of Action on Epilepsy. Resolution CD51.8. 51st Directing Council, Washington, D.C., USA, 26 - 30 September 2011

Strategy and plan of action on mental health. Resolution CD49.R17. 49th Directing Council, Washington, D.C., USA, 28 September-2 October 2009

Disability: Prevention and rehabilitation in the context of the right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health and other related rights. Resolution CD47.R1. 47th Directing Council, Washington, D.C., USA, 25-29 September 2006

Mental Health in the Americas: New Challenges in a new Millennium, CD43/15, Working documents of the 43th Directing Council, Washington, D.C., USA, 24-28 September 2001

Mental Health, CD40/15. Working documents of the 40th Directing Council, Washington, D.C., USA, 22-26 September 1997

Declarations:

Caracas Declaration (132.15 kB), Adopted in Caracas, Venezuela, on 14 November 1990

Brazil Principles (933.29 kB), Regional Conference on Mental Health Services Reform (15 years after the Caracas Declaration), 7 - 9 November 2005

Panama Consensus (405.00 kB), Adopted in Panamá City, Panamá, on 8 October 2010