{"id":42089,"date":"2020-04-28T03:00:46","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T01:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/?p=42089"},"modified":"2021-11-30T14:18:21","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T13:18:21","slug":"support-for-the-implementation-of-best-practices-in-the-area-of-mental-health-transfer-of-ifightdepression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/en\/support-for-the-implementation-of-best-practices-in-the-area-of-mental-health-transfer-of-ifightdepression\/","title":{"rendered":"Support for the implementation of best practices in the area of mental health \u2013 Transfer of iFightDepression"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mental health problems<\/strong> affect about 84 million people across the EU<\/strong>. This is more than one in every six citizens. The total costs of mental ill-health are estimated at more than 4% of GDP<\/strong> (more than EUR 600 billion) across the 27 EU Member States.<\/p>\n

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Out of this, EUR 190 billion reflects direct spending on health care, EUR 170 billion is spent on social security programmes, and EUR 240 billion represents indirect costs to the labour market due to lower employment and productivity. In a dedicated chapter, the Health at A Glance: Europe 2018 report\u00a0stressed the need to improve and promote mental health, concluding,\u00a0inter alia,<\/em>\u00a0that mental ill-health leads to lives lived less fully and to lives lost prematurely.<\/p>\n

The Steering Group on Promotion and Prevention and Management of Non-Communicable Diseases (SGPP) is the central mechanism to support Member States’ health objectives, especially via the implementation of best-in-class approaches. Late 2018, the Steering Group set mental health as a priority for the identification of best practices and implementable research. Consequently, a selection of practices resulting from projects funded by the EU Health Programme or Horizon 2020 was show-cased to Member States\u2019 representatives at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre in Ispra in May 2019. By autumn 2019, Member States ranked these according to relevance to their national priorities and interest for implementation in their national settings.<\/p>\n

Objectives and expected results<\/h3>\n

Through this call for proposals, the Commission now seeks to support the roll-out of those practices with the highest priority ranking and that require a strong involvement of non-governmental actors, notably:<\/p>\n