Documents
Integrating mental health into primary care – WHO WONCA publication
Mental Health & Development – WHO Report
Ministry of Health & Family Welfare order constituting the Policy Group dated 15th April 2011
Addendum to the Ministry Order dated 2nd May 2011
WHO Guidance Document on Mental Health Policy, Plan and Programme
WHO Guidance Document on Organization of Mental Health Services
Burden of Disease in India – Commission on Macroeconomics and Health
Guideline NMHP 11th Five Year Plan – Assistance for Manpower Development
Menal Health Policy – Indonesia 2001-05
WHO AIMS Report on Mental Health System in Gujarat
WHO AIMS Report on Mental Health System in Uttarkhand
NIMHANS Report – Evaluation of DMHP
Scaling up services for MND in low resource settings
Integrating chronic diseases in priimary care – Lancet article
Seting priorities for global mentall health – Lancet article
Chronic disease and injuries -Lancet India series
MANAS Trial – Using trained lay health counsellors for common mental disorders
Pills that swallow policy – Paper by Sumeet Jain and Sushrut Jadhav
ICMR – Mental Health Research in India
Mental Health Research Priorities in low and middile income countries
Research priorities for Indian psychiatry
Outcomes of people with schizophrenia – British Journal of Psychiatry
Mental Health Care in India-Past Present and Future – RS Murthy
Mental Health Policy – Sri Lanka
Effectiveness of mental health services in primary care – WHO Report
Minutes of 1st Meeting of Policy Group – 3rd May 2011
Mental Health An Indian Perspective – 1994 – 2003
Community care for people with mental disorders in developing countries
Comunity psychiatry in developeing coiuntries – a misnomer
Mental, Neurological and substance abuse disorders – systems approach
Mental health program in the 11th 5 year plan
Challenges in comunity mental health care developing countries
DMHP Evaluation Final Report 2011
Report seminar ‘Perspectives on Mental Illness in India’ 1 – 3 July 2010
Report on ‘Human Rights in Mental Institutions’ Workshop
Mental Health Initiatives in India 1947-2010
Lancet Editorial – The crisis in psychiatry
World Health Survey – 2003 – India
WHO summary report – Prevention of mental disorders
NAAJMI Knowledge Capture Workshop Report
Parivartan NGO – report of work with Regional Mental Hospital, Pune
Umang Report on child & adolescent MH service in Satara district
National Mental Health Programme- Time for reappraisal
Why MH Services in LAMI countries are under-resourced , underperforming
DMHP evaluation in four states – 2003
Clinical Establishment Bill 2007
Repackaging MH programmes in LAMI countries
Evaluation of DMHP – ICMR report for the Ministry of H&FW
CAG Report on Audit of MH Sector in Kerala 2010
Maps and Lists
List of Government Mental Hospitals
State wise List of Districts with DMHP
List of NGOs in mental health in the country
Links
Mental Health Policy Documents
UK Dept of Health Strategy Documents
Press Coverage of work of Policy Group
MENTAL HEALTH POLICY GROUP 
The author gives the View point of a Mental health Professional which number about about 3500 Psychiatrists,800 Psychiatric nurses,500 odd clinical Psychologists and some odd Psychiatric social workers.. Labeling is a western term and super rich mentality.Ms.pandit must visit all government Mental health institutions and see who bothers for labeling.she must see institutions which feed these Homeless abandoned mentally ill and see how labeling does not matter to them.This is how those disabled due to Mental illness(not disabled according to them as they have rights under UNCRPD) and their families are deprived of various benefits which is given to street dogs even under the Menaka Gandhi led social justice Ministry.
As a mental Health professional and an Indian citizen, I have 4 comments to make. I am sure, they must have been factored, nevertheless.
1. The policy must make distinction between mental health issues needing medical help/or not. Also, needing medical help sporadically or extensively and so on. It must address the non-medical issues in greater emphasis, since they also allude to preventive and rehabilitative aspects as well as non-medical support during the medical “phase”
2. Labelling must be avoided, even if for entitlements. Legal entitlements in the name of “disabilities” in fact perpetuate and legitimise the existing inequities and stigma.
3. Community mental health approach and Lay counseling approach is freer of the
constraints of labelling at least for a lot of issues which definitelty need care but certainly dont need the label “box” .
4. The policy must give a push to culturally sensitive understanding of mental health. This is both in terms of addressing the negative aspects while augmenting the resilience provided by cultures.