Progetti di ricerca

This proposal aims to contribute to develop a new comprehensive, prevention and promotion-oriented multilateral approach to mental health care. The general objective is to reduce the burden of mental health caused problems, both at personal and population level, by supporting… Leggi tutto the Member States and Associated countries in the implementation of comprehensive and integrated public mental health policies and mechanisms and cross-border exchanges to ensure comprehensive approach to mental health across Europe tailored for diverse health care systems and communities. Project Partners will start to resume existing policies, approaches and actions throughout the EU in line with the Healthier Together EU NCD initiative, which aims to promote mental health, prevent and address at the population-level mental health issues, and to set up ways to support people living with mental disorders and those who are more vulnerable. Important action initiative goal is involving people with lived mental disorder experience in service design and training as an equal partners with valuable knowledge. Project is aimed to reduce stigma and discrimination with all joint forces - stakeholders, professionals, nongovernmental institutions, medical resources and people with lived experience. Furthermore building a system utilizing digitalized solutions for prevention and promotion directed activities will be established, thereby up-scaling effective and open access tools and methods to meet the challenge of increasing mental health problems in the population, focusing on adolescents and young people. MENTOR is fully aligned with and complements public health strategies as well as other on-going investments and capacity building initiatives. Planned activities have potential to exert a substantial impact and results are efficiency oriented on several key mental health issues across member states and should attract interest from many countries as mental health is a priority in global action scope.

The mission of RESPOND is 1) to identify critical resilience factors and specific vulnerable groups at risk of immediate and long-term adverse mental health impact of the COVID-19 pandemic; 2) To improve the resilience, wellbeing and mental health of frontline health and… Leggi tutto care workers and other vulnerable groups by implementing scalable World Health Organization (WHO) programmes, and 3) to steer future policy decisions by understanding and disentangling the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and different public health containment and subsequently relaxation strategies on mental health and wellbeing in vulnerable groups across Europe’s different health systems. RESPOND is centred around core questions regarding the short and long-term impacts of the pandemic on mental health and health inequalities on vulnerable groups within the general population, including frontline workers. In the first immediate delivery phase, an impressive set of existing longitudinal datasets are examined for resilience factors and risk factors. Furthermore, the responsiveness of health systems and identification of best practice responses that protect resilience, mental health and wellbeing are assessed in eight EU countries. The long-terms effects are determined of the pandemic and the control measures on demand for (mental) health services in health registers in Sweden, Lombardy and Barcelona and the scalable WHO SH+/PM+ stepped care programmes adapted for COVID-19 will be implemented and evaluated both in frontline workers and vulnerable groups. RESPOND provides policy recommendations within 3 months on vulnerability factors for developing poor mental health resulting from current containment and mitigation measures. Further lessons learnt and evidence-based policy recommendations will be made available during the project’s lifetime through Policy Briefs in month 6, 12, 18, 24 and 36 for immediate consideration and use by all EU member states.