World Mental Health Day 2021

This year’s theme is ‘Mental Health in an Unequal World’

World Mental Health Day is organised by the World Federation for Mental Health and this year’s theme is ‘Mental Health in an Unequal World’. This particular theme aims to highlight the impact of an increasingly polarised and unequal world when considering people’s mental health.

Join us on the 10th of October by raising awareness of mental health inqualities around the world and ensuring that people with mental health concerns are fully integrated in to all aspects of life.

Inequalities in health are primarily the result of inequalities in society, where the conditions in which people were born, grow, live and work can be seen to have an impact on their opportunities. Inequalities in physical and mental health are caused by unequal distribution of socioeconomic influences on health, such as education, housing, and employment.

This is why World Mental Health Day will also raise awareness about unequal access to mental health services for those who are experiencing mental health difficulties because between 75% and 95% of people with mental illnesses living in low and middle-income countries are unable to receive mental health treatments at all? Not only this but those who are experiencing mental health difficulties are at a higher risk of becoming discriminated against, homeless, unemployed and isolated from society.