Opinion: Lessons from Ecuador on responding to the mental health crisis in the U.S. and around the world
In his assessment of governments’ work to provide sufficient mental health resources to their citizens, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the World Health Organization, warned that “good intentions are not being met with investment.”
Though many countries have implemented policies, plans, and laws to improve mental health care, they haven’t offered enough leadership and governance for community-based mental health resources and sufficient promotion and prevention for mental health. Both the pace of spending on behavioral health and getting mental health services into primary care settings has been slow.
