National Mental Health Policy 2014

The vision of the National Mental Health Policy is to promote mental health, prevent mental illness, enable recovery from mental illness, promote destigmatization and desegregation, and ensure socio-economic inclusion of persons affected by mental illness by providing accessible, affordable and quality health and social care to all persons through their life-span within a rights-based framework.

Objectives of the Policy

• To provide universal access to mental healthcare.
• To increase access to and utilization of comprehensive mental health services.
• To increase access to mental health care especially to vulnerable groups including homeless persons, persons in remote areas, educationally, socially and deprived sections.
• To reduce prevalence ....