📚 Recommended Reading List
This reading list contains links to European Commission documents on the “comprehensive approach to mental health”, an overarching EU initiative structured around three core principles: Prevention, Access to quality and affordable care, and Reintegration into society after recovery. You will also find European country profiles and WHO guidelines with a focus on community mental health services.
EU — Comprehensive approach to mental health (European Commission)
Country profiles and reforms
WHO resources
Communities, benchmarks, and other references
- EU‑PROMENS Community of Practice (EPALE)
- OECD — A New Benchmark for Mental Health Systems (2021)
- Culture for Health — Mapping of 800+ services and initiatives
- Nature (2011) — Grand challenges in global mental health
- United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) — European Commission
- Mental Health Europe — Glossary
- EU Drugs Agency — Best practice portal
- European Alliance Against Depression
- EUnetHTA — European Health Technology Assessment
Please find in the following links to European country profiles, guidelines from World Health Organization, especially focused on Community Mental Health services for your convenience and inspiration.
Sustainability: To make this exchange programme a sustainable endeavour, we invite all participants to engage in a dedicated community of practice on the European platform for adult learning - EPALE. Once registered on this free platform, you have access to a variety of different learning offers from various other projects from all over Europe too.
Here is the reading list, click on the title to collapse:
EU - Commission website: Comprehensive approach to mental health
A comprehensive approach to mental health - European Commission (europa.eu)
EU - Commission best practices portal
European member states health systems country data profiles - including mental health (2023)
Country profiles focused on mental health reform via European Joint Action Ja-IMPLEMENTAL including best practices on suicide prevention and mental health country reform status
WHO Resolutions on mental health
EU-PROMENS Community of Practice through the EPALE platform
OECD 2021 Benchmark for Mental Health Systems
2023 Mapping of over 800 services and initiatives from Culture for Health initiative - all over Europe
WHO website with publications and guidelines on Community mental health services available in many languages
Nature paper on Grand challenges in Global Mental health 2011
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on the European Commission website (CRPD ratified by EU in 2010)
United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities - European Commission
Mental Health Europe Glossary
WHO-International classification of diseases chapter V
Best practices portal of the European Union Drugs Agency
European Alliance against Depression
European health technology Assessment