#MHForAll Webinar: COVID-19 and the impact of a global pandemic on mental health

#MHForAll Webinar: COVID-19 and the impact of a global pandemic on mental health

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Event type: Single day (a day or less)

This series is run by United for Global Mental Health, The Lancet Psychiatry, Mental Health Innovation Network, and MHPSS.net. These webinars are designed to provide policymakers and the wider health community with the latest evidence on the most pressing and often neglected issues of mental health around the world, including the impact of COVID- 19 on mental health. The webinars provide practical solutions to the challenging issues we are all grappling with. Participants are encouraged to join from around the world, including those with lived experience of mental health, and of COVID-19.

Presenters:

  • Florence Baingana, World Health Organisation
  • Carmen Moreno, University of Madrid
  • Nev Jones, University of South Florida
  • Niall Boyce, The Lancet Psychiatry (Chair)

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Questions can be submitted in advance by email. The sessions are recorded, and summary notes posted on www.unitedgmh.org/news. Any questions please contact: webinars@unitedgmh.org.


User profile image Jlw - Active User / Utilisateur actif

What is the cost of the webinar?

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User profile image Angela - EENet Yoda Master

HI [@mention:344001735721552508], these webinars are free to join.

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User profile image Jlw - Active User / Utilisateur actif
Thank you for getting back to me.

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User profile image Angela - EENet Yoda Master

The webinar recording is now available here.

Key messages:

  • Mental health services have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic. They were often the last to be provided with PPE, despite potentially being at greater risk than many other areas, while tackling the needs of the virus and supporting the ICUs have been at the top of the agenda.
  • Forced changes in service delivery have exacerbated the digital divide. While there was more progress in digital mental health service provision in the first 10 weeks of the pandemic than in the last decade, reduced decisional timeframes have meant less time for considering the implications of these digital developments and resulting inequality.
  • The impact of COVID-19 on mental health will outlive the pandemic itself. We must look ahead and prepare for a chronic and ever-increasing mental health burden as a result of the pandemic. There will be an increased number of survivors, perhaps with PTSD, more people with long COVID, where the symptoms are often neurological, and a huge number of people who are in mourning.
  • Attitudes towards mental health have changed, but we must invest in services. COVID-19 has contributed to a normalisation of mental health challenges and conversations around them. But there is a serious risk of neglecting serious, long-term mental health illness.
  • Mental health must be fully included and funded in pandemic response plans. Last year the World Health Organization carried out important research which showed that while most countries did have a MHPPS response plan, the majority had not fully funded this.

It is clear that the world is facing a mental health emergency as a result of COVID-19. It is also clear that we can only fully recover from the virus and if we build back better and ensure good quality, rights-based mental health care for all.

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