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An emerging environmental health concern: Impacts of air pollution on the brain
Anthony S. Wexler and Pamela J. Lein from the University of California share their expert views on the impacts of air pollution on the brain
Air pollution is a complex mixture of gases and particles in the atmosphere. Air pollutants are defined as compounds known to be deleterious to human...
Report reveals flaws and human rights challenges in European mental health systems
Mental Health Europe and the University of Kent-Tizard Centre have launched a new report which has revealed the flaws and human rights challenges in European mental health systems
Tens and thousands of people with mental health problems are living in psychiatric and other institutions in Europe today. At least 264,000...
Good management is essential for positive mental health in the workplace
Mental Health Europe’s Director Maria Nyman shares insights on how to promote a positive work environment to improve workplace mental health
The benefits of promoting positive workplace mental health, as well as the existing psychosocial risks linked to work and employment, are widely acknowledged. Most of us will also know...
Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs): A continuing environmental health concern
This compelling article is written by Professor of Neurotoxicology, Pamela J. Lein, Ph.D. who is based at University of California’s Davis/School of Veterinary Medicine. The thrust of the article is that polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are a continuing environmental health concern in today’s world
Not shying away from detail, the piece...
Workplace mental health: Healthy workforce, healthy society
The European Brain Council (EBC) highlights the challenges around workplace mental health, following World Mental Health Day on 10th October
Scottish government to introduce mental health funding boost
The Scottish Government has announced a mental health funding boost of £500,000 in a move announced on World Mental Health day
Mental health staff say cuts have lead to increased assault
Mental health staff have linked cuts to services and staff shortages with an increase in assault and abuse from patients, especially in England
New mental health figures show a rise in depression among teenage girls
New mental health figures revealed by a study show that a quarter of teenage girls and 1 in 10 teenage boys have suffered from depression
Study shows a decline in student mental health
A new study has revealed that student mental health has declined sharply, with fives times as many suffering from mental illness
Mental health and medication: The importance of perspective
Peter Kinderman, from Mental Health Europe, looks at mental health medication and how we need a new perspective on care
Environmental health science: reducing the risk
Virginia Guidry and Kimberly Gray from the NIEHS outline how environmental health science can help to identify potential hazards in a child’s environment
Providing mental health services in the Palatinate
Pfalzklinikum shares its work as a mental health services provider and explains why wellbeing is vital for everyone, including a firm's own staff
Europe needs a plan to address refugees’ and migrants’ mental health
Refugees' and migrants' mental health care needs must be addressed, and a coordinated response is essential, stresses Ophélie Martin at Mental Health Europe
More than a million migrants and refugees crossed into Europe in 2015 and 2016, with more expected to arrive in 2017. Many of them have endured physical...
Pfalzklinikum fur Psychiatrie und Neurologie Ador – Mental health on the doorstep
Pfalzklinikum offers more decentralised services for children and adolescents.
Improving the mental health care on the spot, right where people live, work and spend their free time, without having to take on long and distressing drives to their therapists and doctors: this is the aim that mental health services provider...
Innovative strategies to address the mental health crisis
Dr Benjamin Van Voorhees from the Department of Paediatrics in the University of Illinois at Chicago, outlines innovative strategies to tackle the mental health crisis in the US
Councils spend less than 1% on public mental health, charity reveals
Public mental health is not a priority for local authorities according to new figures on spending revealed by the mental health charity Mind
Mental health charity Mind say that figures received through the Freedom of the Information Act show that councils spend, on average, less than 1% of their public health budget on...
Education Policy Institute calls for new children’s mental health challenge
The final report from the Education Policy Institute’s independent commission on children and young people’s mental health calls for new Prime Minister’s challenge
The Education Policy Institute’s Independent Commission on Children and Young People’s Mental Health has released a new report today calling for a new ‘Prime Minister’s Challenge on...
Managing for mental health
Bob Grove, Senior Policy Adviser, Mental Health Europe, outlines how mental health can impact a workplace and why it’s important to ensure your workers are mentally healthy
The costs to employers and to national economies associated with mental ill health in the workplace are huge. However, when figures of hundreds...
£15m mental health fund announced by the government
The government has announced 41 projects will share £15m to fund mental health places of safety…
The Department of Health has revealed £15m will be plugged into improving mental health services. The funding will be used to support 41 projects working on improving the provision of mental health places of...
Young people’s decision making in environmental health
Liliana Cori, Institute of Clinical Physiology of the Italian National Research Council, outlines the role of young people in making environmental health decisions...
The LIFE + GIOCONDA project - GIOvani CONtano nelle Decisioni su salute e Ambiente - ‘Young people count in environment and health decisions', provides young citizens and local...
