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    World Psychiatry. 2004 Feb;3(1):54-5.

    The World Federation for Mental Health: its origins and contemporary relevance to WHO and WPA policies.

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    Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, c/o Sheppard & Enoch Pratt Hospital, Baltimore, MD 21285-6815, USA.

    Abstract

    The World Federation for Mental Health (WFMH) is an international, multi-professional non-governmental organization (NGO), including citizen volunteers and former patients. It was founded in 1948 in the same era as the United Nations (UN) and the World Health Organization (WHO). For many years, led mainly by psychiatrists focused on social, peace-related and human rights issues, it was the only international mental health NGO consulting with UN agencies. Since the late 1990s, as a global alliance of national mental health associations focused mainly on traditional mental health issues and on prevention and promotion, it has continued its long-time collaboration with WHO. Its policy concerns and those of international professional associations such as the WPA could be mutually advanced through partnerships aimed at achieving common goals.

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    16633456
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    PMCID: PMC1414666
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