Promoting Mental Health in Indigenous Populations. Experiences from Countries. A collaboration betweenPAHO/WHO, Canada, Chile and Partners from the Region of the Americas 2014-2015
Pan American Health Organization.
Washington; PAHO; 2016. 53 p. ilus.
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In 2007, the countries of the Region of the Americas approved the Health Agenda for the Americas 2008-2017 establishing a priority for mental health. In 2014, the Pan American Health Organizations Plan of Action on Mental Health (2015-2020) identified cross-cutting themes including ethnicity, equity and human rights, in line with the World Health Organizations Global Mental Health Action Plan (2013). Specialized literature indicates that the rates of mental health problems among indigenous communities are growing consistently around the world. Common issues include high suicide and substance abuse rates among indigenous youth. These, combined with numerous unfavourable social determinants result in high psychosocial vulnerability. Notwithstanding these circumstances, indigenous populations are the least likely to have access to adequate mental health services. Such realities have motivated several projects addressing issues related to indigenous wellbeing since 2009. The current collaborative project furthers work initiated by PAHO/WHO aimed at finding solutions to this complex health situation. The first goal of this project was to exchange experiences on indigenous mental health issues among participating countries from the Americas. The hope was that comparing initiatives and practices used to approach common mental health issues in different indigenous communities would yield useful new ideas. Furthermore, there was interest in exploring the potential relevance and adaptability of a standardized WHO mental health training tool the Mental health Gap Action Programme Intervention Guide - in Nunavut.
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