Mental health approaches

Why youth mental health is important

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Why youth mental health is important
Impacts of poor mental health
The importance of early prevention
What does prevention look like?
Poor investment into mental health
The problem in numbers
A new paradigm
The early psychosis model
Why is a global model required?
One size doesn’t fit all

In 2019, the World Economic Forum made a commitment to prioritize mental health, identifying youth mental health and early intervention as important aspects of this. From this has emerged a partnership with mental health charity, Orygen, a result of which has been the development of a Global Youth Mental Health Framework.

Mental health approaches

Key characteristics

Importance of local contextual factors