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Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean SAPTEL, the Mexican telephone counseling service, is preparing to expand its work to the state of Chiapas. With the support of the Pan American Health Organization of WHO and the Chiapas State Ministry of Health, service will be provided in the capital city first, then to the entire state….

  Final report – “Guidelines for Programmes of Suicide Prevention”     The project started in December 2002 and was completed on October 2004. It was financed by the Belgian Federal Public Service for Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment, International Relations Department. The final product of the project – the document “Guidelines for country-based programmes…

Co-occurring substance use disorders and mental health conditions — commonly referred to as dual diagnosis — represent one of the most complex and persistently underserved clinical challenges in psychiatry. The World Federation for Mental Health has consistently emphasized that integrated, coordinated approaches to assessment and treatment are not optional: addressing one condition while ignoring the…

New York The attacks on the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York were, to a remarkable degree, international events. Although most of the people who lost their lives were American, citizens of some eighty other countries were also killed. People around the world saw the New York and Washington attacks almost…

  “Seventeenth-century philosopher Rene Descartes conceptualized the distinction between the mind and the body. He viewed the “mind” as completely separable from the “body” And for almost two centuries, mental health advocates have been trying to put them back together This separation between so-called “mental” and” physical” health has no real relevance to the scientific…