Promoting Mental Health: Concepts, Emerging Evidence, Practice: Summary Report

This report describes concepts relating to promotion of mental health, the emerging evidence for effectiveness of interventions, and the public health policy and practice implications. It includes a selective review of the available evidence from a range of countries and cultures, and documents how actions such as advocacy, policy and project development, legislative and regulatory reform, communications, research, and evaluation may be achieved and monitored in countries at all stages of economic development. The report also considers strategies for continued growth of the evidence base and approaches to determining cost-effectiveness of actions.