Joint statement on Mental Health
The Executive Committee of COTEC is very pleased to have signed the joint statement on Mental Health for the EU Health Policy Forum with 20 other signatories.
The European Framework for Action on Mental Health and Wellbeing, which gathered together the lessons learned during the Joint Action, provides a roadmap for improving and promoting mental health. The 20 signatories to this joint-statement would like to see a concerted effort to follow on from the Joint Action and Framework, and gather a broad coalition of organisations who wish to support the improvement of mental health through European policies with a specific focus on four areas:
The signatories urge the European Institutions to:
- Ensure parity of esteem, the principle by which mental health must be given equal priority to physical health.
- Take a life-course approach to mental health.
- Pay stronger attention to mental health in the workplace, because – while occupational health and safety policies and legislation have overwhelmingly focused on physical risk factors and physical injury, poor performance due to mental health issues is one of the biggest problems in the modern workplace.
- Improve mental health treatment in primary care
Read the full statement here