Let’s stand together for World Mental Health Day
On 10 October, we celebrate World Mental Health Day
[https://www.who.int/campaigns/world-mental-health-day]. The objective
of this day is to raise awareness of mental health issues around the
world. In addition, countries should focus on mobilising efforts to
support mental health. This international day provides an opportunity
for anyone working on mental health issues to share more about their
work and continue highlighting improvements that still need to be made
in order to provide mental health care to people worldwide. 

This year the World Health Organisation (WHO) has chosen the theme
‘Mental health is a universal human right’
[https://www.who.int/campaigns/world-mental-health-day/2023]. The goal
is to improve knowledge, raise awareness and drive actions that
promote and protect everyone’s mental health as a universal human
right. This basic human right for all people means that everyone has
the right to the highest attainable standard of mental health,
including the right to be protected from mental health risks, the
right to available, accessible, acceptable, and good quality care, and
the right to liberty, independence and inclusion in the community. 

On the data.europa.eu portal you can find extensive datasets with
mental health services throughout Europe
[https://data.europa.eu/data/datasets?query=mental%20health%20services&locale=en].
These mental health services work together with the WHO to ensure
mental health is valued, promoted, and protected, and that urgent
action is taken so that everyone an exercise their human rights and
access the quality mental health care they need.  Open data shared
with the mental health services provides an opportunity to
revolutionise mental health diagnosis and treatment. Open data is
proving crucial in providing better-quality care by mental health
services. 

Join the World Mental Health Day 2023
[https://www.who.int/campaigns/world-mental-health-day/2023] campaign
to learn more about your basic right to mental health as well as how
to protect the rights of others.

For more news and events, follow us on Twitter
[https://twitter.com/EU_opendata], Facebook
[https://www.facebook.com/data.europa.eu] and LinkedIn
[https://www.linkedin.com/company/publications-office-of-the-european-union/],
or subscribe to our newsletter
[https://data.europa.eu/en/newsletter].

Publication Date/Time
2023-10-10T08:00:42+00:00
Learn more about WHO’s campaign ‘Mental health is a universal
human right’