Mental Health and Well-being Unit
The Mental Health and Well-being Unit provides policy and technical guidance and expertise to countries across the WHO European Region to promote mental health and well-being, prevent mental ill health and strengthen accessible, equitable and people-centred mental health systems and services by recommending approaches grounded in health equity, human rights and the meaningful participation of people with lived and living experience.
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Publications

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Clinical audit tool to strengthen quality of child and youth mental health services
18 May 2026

Clinical audit tool to strengthen quality of child and youth mental health services
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The Amsterdam conclusions: mental health and well-being in prisons and other detention centres – Amsterdam, Netherlands (Kingdom of the), 18–19 April 2024
19 December 2025

The Amsterdam conclusions: mental health and well-being in prisons and other detention centres – Amsterdam,...

Recognizing that one third of people living in prisons have mental health disorders, the WHO Regional Office for Europe, together with its partners and...

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Child and youth mental health in the WHO European Region: status and actions to strengthen the quality of care
5 November 2025

Child and youth mental health in the WHO European Region: status and actions to strengthen the quality...

For the first time WHO Regional Office for Europe brings together all of data available at the Regional level on child and youth mental health. One in...

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Our work

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Partnering with the EU to support health resilience in the Eastern Partnership countries

Partnering with the European Union (EU) to tackle mental health challenges

Promoting good mental health in the workplace

News

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6 October 2026
Media release

Abuse, neglect, violence: 2 in 3 young Europeans surveyed have experienced childhood adversity
18 May 2026
News release

New WHO tool supports countries to improve quality of child and youth mental health services
28 April 2026
News release

WHO and partners launch Ukraine campaign to spotlight healing power of arts
13 February 2026
News release

WHO/Europe and the EU scale up the integration of arts and culture into health systems

Multimedia

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28 September 2026

Improving suicide prevention by enhancing access to care
28 September 2026

WHO Course on Policy and Leadership in Mental Health: building capacity for systemic change
28 September 2026

Mapping the Road to Recovery
28 September 2026

Cyprus’s Shift Toward Community Based Mental Health Care

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