Abstract
The negotiations on the SDG goals and targets, leading to the sustainable development Declaration in September 2015, are now in the final stages. Ensuring that people with mental disorders are not left behind in the global development program from 2015 to 2030 will require specific and explicit commitments and targets against which progress in mental health can be measured and reported. The arguments for inclusion of explicit mental health targets in the SDGs are compelling. The final negotiations on the SDG goals and targets will now determine whether people with mental illness and psychosocial disabilities will continue to be neglected or will benefit equitably from inclusion in the post-2015 development program.
Highlights
Mental disorders were famously not included in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) [1], and were not included in the Action Plan for the Global Strategy for the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable diseases (NCD) [2]
Since 2000 the progress that has been achieved in the health MDGs has been substantial [1], and governments across the world have been gearing up to deal with the challenge of the NCDs [3]
Helen Clark [31], and the summary of the stocktaking meeting of inter-governmental negotiations on the post2015 Development Agenda [30] suggest that the 17 goals and 169 targets proposed by the Open Working Group (OWG) [26] may remain
Summary
Mental disorders were famously not included in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) [1], and were not included in the Action Plan for the Global Strategy for the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable diseases (NCD) [2]. Many low-income and middle-income countries, and key regional organisations, in all parts of the world are paying greater attention [15] to NCDs and to mental disorders. This is a result of increased understanding of their impact on social and economic development, reciprocal causal relationships and common social and economic determinants. A brief but very useful summary of discussions at the stocktaking meeting held in January 2015 [30] has been provided by the co-facilitators of the negotiations, the Permanent Representatives of Ireland and Kenya
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