ADVANCE - „Addressing mental health vulnerabilities from adolescence to older age: innovating prevention science for times of change“
HORIZON-HLTH-2022-STAYHLTH-01-two-stage
The ADVANCE project has received funding from the EU Horizon Programme under Grant Agreement No. 101080323
Official ADVANCE project website: https://advancementalhealth.ku.dk/
The overall aim of ADVANCE is to develop, evaluate and disseminate strategies – inspired by a social justice and human rights approach - for the implementation and scaling-up of cost-effective mental health promotion and prevention strategies with vulnerable populations in a changing Europe.
Mental health has been identified as an urgent priority for action throughout Europe. The EU has prioritised a historic pandemic, climate change, digitalisation, socio-economic inequities, migration, conflict and socio-demographic transitions as the most critical threats for mental health in our times. EU documents highlight that 84 million people in the EU experience mental health problems, costing 4% of GDP (>600 billion Euro). Mental health contributes 26% to the burden of disease in Europe.
Yet despite so many large groups of people identified as being at risk, development of mental health strategies beyond specialised clinical treatments has been limited. If this challenge is to be addressed it requires a systematic change in the field of mental health: one where the large research to practice gap is bridged and a diverse series of evidence-based, adaptable and scalable mental health promotion and prevention interventions are available and can be implemented throughout Europe.
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