World Health Organization : Technical Report Series, No. 9: Expert Committee on Mental Health

By World Health Organization

Book Id: WPLBN0000061900
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	World Health Organization : Technical Report Series, No. 9: Expert Committee on Mental Health
Author:	World Health Organization
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Language:	English
Subject:	Health., Public health, Wellness programs
Collections:	Medical Library Collection, World Health Collection
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Publisher:	World Health Organization


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Description
Medical Reference Publication

Excerpt
The Executive Board at its fifth session considered the report of the first session of the Expert Committee on Mental Health and authorized its publication. The Board considers that the report contains recommendations on principles and policy which will be of value both to WHO in planning its own programmes and to administrators in national health administrations. In particular, the Board wishes to emphasize the importance of the development of preventive mental health work in public-health services and the need to provide training facilities both for public-health officers to undertake this work and for workers in clinical psychiatry. Since the resources of the Organization will not, in the immediate future, permit the simultaneous development within its programme of work based on all the recommendations of the report, the Board believes that certain of the activities which are of especial importance should have preference in the Organization's mental health programme at the present time.

Table of Contents
1 . Terms of reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2 . Mental health activities during. 1948 . . . . . . . . . . 5 3 . Principles and priorities in mental health work . . . . . 6 4 . Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 5 . Nurses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 6 . Fellowships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 7 . Supply of technical literature to governments . . . . . . 13 8 . Health education of the public . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 9 . Collection of information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 10 . Advisory and demonstration services to governments . . 17 11 . Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 12 . Alcoholism and drug addiction . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 13 . Supplemental programme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 14 . Maternal and child health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 15 . Venereal diseases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 16 . International statistical classification of diseases . . . . . 23 17 . Morbidity studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 18 . Unification of pharmzcopoeias . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 19 . Co-operation with United Nations . . . . . . . . . . . 25 20 . Co-operation with the specialized agencies . . . . . . . 28 21 . Co-operation with non-governmental organizations . . . 30 22 . Expert Committee on Mental Health . . . . . . . . . . 30 23 . Summary of recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Annex 1 . Medical aspects of the causes and prevention of crime and the treatment of oifenders . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Annex 2 . Psychiatric examination of offenders . . . . . . . 41