Mental health global policies and human rights wiley mental health has become a global issue throughout both the developed and developing worlds the treatment and care of the mentally disordered and the need to improve the mental health of all citizens has become a major political and professional concern. Develop mental health policies and laws that promote human rights mental health policies and laws are absent or inadequate in most countries of the world and yet they are critical to improving conditions for people with mental disabilities whos work in supporting countries to develop human rights oriented mental health policies and plans pdf 690kb. Mental health has become a global issue throughout both the developed and developing worlds the treatment and care of the mentally disordered and the need to improve the mental health of all citizens has become a major political and professional concern this text sets out to monitor and analyse what supra national and national policies have been and are being implemented and to indicate . Mental health global policies and human rights edited by morrall p and hazelton m and the econ august 2006 sociology of health illness mary knyspel