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This page contains a number of
major government documents on general mental health issues. Sites
on specific mental health subjects will be found on their
corresponding topic pages.
 Achieving the Promise: Transforming Mental Health Care in America
Final Report, President's new Freedom Commission on Mental Health,
July 2003.
Better
or Worse: A longitudinal Study of the Mental Health of Adults
Living in Private Households in Great Britain
Editors Nicolas Singleton and Glyn Lewis. The Report is based on
surveys carried out by the Office for National Statistics in 2000
and 2001 for the Department of Health and the Scottish Executive
Health Department. London, HMSO, 2003.
Mental
Health: A Report of the Surgeon General. December 13, 1999
This is the first Surgeon General's Report on Mental Health. It
asserts that mental illness is a critical public health problem
that must be addressed by the Nation.
Mental Health: Culture, Race, and Ethnicity, A Supplement to Mental
Health: A Report of the Surgeon General (The report is also
available in html format)
This Supplement was undertaken to probe more deeply into mental
health disparities affecting racial and ethnic minorities. Drawing
on scientific evidence from a wide-ranging body of empirical
research, this Supplement has three stated purposes:
To understand better the nature and extent of mental health
disparities;
To present the evidence on the need for mental health services and
the provision of services to meet those needs; and
To document promising directions toward the elimination of mental
health disparities and the promotion of mental health.
Mental
Health of Refugees
Mental Health of Refugees. Geneva, World Health Organization,
1996.
Mental Health Surveys
From the Department of Health in the U.K. Surveys about the mental
health of certain groups; children, adolescents, carers, adults,
older people, and on attitudes to mental health amongst the general
population.
Pathological
Gambling: A Critical Review
By the Committee on the Social and Economic Impact of Pathological
Gambling and Committee on Law and Justice, Commission on Behavioral
and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council.
Washington, D.C., National Academy Press, 1999.
A Report on Mental Illnesses in Canada
Ottawa, Health Canada, 2002.
The State of Mental Health in the European Union
European Comission, Directorate-General for Health and Consumer
Protection, 2004.
World Health Report
2001: Mental Health: New Understanding, New Hope
The text of the 2001 WHO World Health Report is available at this
site, either in html, or as a .pdf file.
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