Lee Knifton is Director of Mental Health Foundation (Scotland and Northern Ireland)TODAY is World Mental Health Day and its theme is "make mental health and wellbeing for all a global priority". We all have mental health, but mental ill-health is not equally distributed across the population of Scotland. This unequal distribution of risk is what we call mental health inequalities. There are clear actions the Scottish Government can take to reduce mental health inequalities and it must include actions in all government departments, not only health. To find out more about Mental Health Foundation’s work to prevent poor mental health visit mentalhealth.org.uk.

Source: The Herald October 10, 2022 08:44 UTC