This webinar will discuss with experts the strategic opportunity for the NCD response that has been presented by the inclusion of mental health and air pollution in the political declaration from the third high-level meeting of the United Nations General Assembly on NCDs, noting that WHO will be invited to present sets of recommended policy interventions by 2020 on both issues.

Arogya World is making a clarion call to improve the recognition of mental health as part of healthy workplaces in India. At the annual 2018 Healthy Workplace Conference, the Bangalore Statement was issued facilitating new pledges and commitments from companies for mental health programmes.

Dementia has grown in stature as a priority disease in the mental health debate, but we are far from acknowledgement of the epidemic it is. Meanwhile, we need more mental health support for people affected by dementia, writes Annie Bliss.

To coincide with World Obesity Day's weight stigma theme this 11 October, Stuart Flint explains why weight stigma and discrimination is a priority, and how we can all look at what we can do to improve the narrative. 

Promoting and protecting adolescent mental health benefits not just adolescents’ health but also economies and society as whole, according to WHO.