WHO strategies and interventions
Promote, protect and restore the health and well-being of people living with mental health and substance use disorders
We support governments in the goal of promoting mental well-being, preventing mental disorders, providing care, enhancing recovery, promoting human rights and reducing the death, disease and disability for individuals with mental disorders. In the Eastern Mediterranean Region, our work is guided by the 2 regional frameworks for action on mental health and substance use. These frameworks identify evidence-based and cost-effective interventions for scaling up care, as well as action on the promotion of mental health and prevention, management and treatment of mental, neurological and substance use disorders. The frameworks capture global commitments made by countries to reduce the premature death and disability caused by these conditions.
The 2 frameworks provide countries with high-impact, evidence-based, cost-effective and affordable interventions, which can be implemented by all countries, irrespective of income. We are working with governments and other partners to support the implementation of these frameworks, which will have a high impact on improving the health of people across the Region, and will play a major part in assisting countries to meet their commitments under the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Regional framework to scale up action on mental health in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
In October 2015, the WHO Regional Committee for the Eastern Mediterranean endorsed a regional framework to support countries scale up action on mental health in the Region. This document is a road map for countries to implement the “Mental health action plan for 2013–2030”. The regional framework provides strategic interventions and indicators for countries to assess their progress in the four domains of:
Governance
Health care
Promotion and prevention
Surveillance, monitoring and research
Regional framework to scale up action on mental health in the Eastern Mediterranean Region | Arabic | French
Mental health action plan 2013–2030
Regional framework for action to strengthen the public health response to substance use
In October 2019, the WHO Regional Committee for the Eastern Mediterranean endorsed a regional framework to support countries in strengthening their public health response to substance use. This document is a road map for countries to implement the outcome document of the special session of the United Nation General Assembly on the world drug problem, convened in 2016. The regional framework provides strategic interventions and indicators for countries to assess their progress in the five domains of:
Governance
Health sector response
Promotion and prevention
Monitoring and surveillance
International cooperation
Regional framework for action to strengthen the public health response to substance use | Arabic | French
Special session of the United Nations General Assembly on the world drug problem
