The path to global equity in mental health care in the context of COVID-19

Summary:

This comment published in The Lancet suggests that efforts to achieve equity in mental health should address: involvement of people with lived experience; collection and integration of social determinants data to inform healthcare system responses; implementation of services responsive to population needs; leveraging care providers proportionate to population need; creating innovative and accessible services; incorporating equity objectives into global health policy activities and inter-sectoral programmes; and measuring cost-effectiveness.

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