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Promoting
mental health. Strategy and action plan 2003-2008.
Title:
Promoting mental health. Strategy and action plan 2003-2008. |
Published:
Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety (DHSSPS),
January 2003. |
Description:
In the Programme
for Government, the Northern Ireland Executive committed itself
to five priorities for action,
one of which
was ‘Working for a healthier people’. Within this
priority, it promised to take specific measures to promote
mental and emotional health and reduce suicides. The Investing
for Health strategy provides the framework for the attack
on preventable disease, ill health and health inequalities.
It
identifies mental health as a priority.
Promoting
Mental Health outlines 30 actions towards an integrated
approach which addresses the wider
determinants of mental health and focuses particularly on
inequalities.
Mental health promotion works at three levels: to strengthen
individuals, to strengthen communities and to reduce structural
barriers to mental health.
The strategy aims to:
- improve people’s mental and emotional
wellbeing, in particular that of people at risk or vulnerable,
and people
with identified mental health problems, their carers
and families;
- prevent or reduce the incidence and impact of mental
and emotional distress, anxiety, mental illness and suicide;
- raise
awareness of the determinants of mental and emotional
health at public, professional and policy making levels
and
reduce discrimination against people with mental health
problems;
- ensure
that all those with a contribution to make are knowledgeable,
skilled and aware of effective practice in mental and
emotional health promotion.
The Health Promotion Agency has been commissioned by the
DHSSPS to lead and facilitate a regional working group to
take forward the implementation of the strategy.
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Format:
A4, 36 pages. |
Other
formats:
PDF available
here. |
Target
group:
A wide range of professionals working to promote mental health
and emotional wellbeing. |
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