Evidence of Effectiveness

The network “Implementing Mental Health Promotion Action (IMPHA)” has developed an Internet database describing existing programmes, a review of the evidence in prevention and promotion, and an action plan “Mental health promotion and Mental Disorder Prevention: A Policy for Europe”

Other sources of evidence of effective interventions include:

World Health Organization. (2004). Prevention of mental disorders: Effective interventions and policy options, Summary Report. A report of the World Health Organization, Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse in collaboration with the Prevention Research Centre of the Universities of Nijmegen and Maastricht. Geneva: World health Organization

World Health Organization, (2004). Promoting mental health: Concepts, emerging evidence, practice :summary report. A Report from the World Health Organization, Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse in collaboration with the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation (VicHealth) and The University of Melbourne. Geneva, WHO