Mental Health

Mental health is one of the cross-cutting issues introduced in the World Bank in recent years. That mental health is mutually dependent on physical health is an established fact, but it is important to consider the implications mental health have on a lot of other areas in development: employment, poverty alleviation efforts, social protection, community-based development, education and the list could go on. This web-page is under development, but we hope to provide some initial answer to your questions on the role of the World Bank in mental health and development.

• The WHO Mental Health Atlas
• Publication:  "Mental Health & Conflicts: Conceptual Framework & Approaches"
• Publication: "HIV/AIDS and Mental Health"
• Seminar: "Show-Casing Five Years of Mental Health and Neurological Disorders Activities at the World Bank". November 11, 2004.
• Mental health covers a wide range of topics from Children's Mental Health, over Depression and  Gender to Post conflict issues and Suicide. Go here for more mental health topics
• Mental Health and Conflict Toolkit (PDF)
• Proceedings of the November 2003 Seminar entitled: "Mental Health & the Global Development Agenda: What Role for the World Bank?" are available along with an Overview of World Bank Interventions in Mental Health
• A publication by Save the Children Federation, Inc: "Children in Crisis: Good Practices in Evaluating Psychosocial Programming" (PDF) provides background information on impacts of conflicts on the individual and on communities, psychosocial development, including children's reactions to violence, what is psychosocial programming, principles of project logic models, clear descriptions of inputs, outputs and their indicators, identifying data sources and methods of data collection and how to design a psychosocial project.
• The Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA): "Prevalence, Severity, and Unmet Need for Treatment of Mental Disorders in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys"