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25/10/2025

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21/10/2025

Just released - Framework on provision of rehabilitation services in the WHO South East Asia region

Rehabilitation is an essential health strategy for optimizing functioning and reducing disability, critical to achieving universal health coverage (UHC) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, in the WHO South-East (SE) Asia Region, access to rehabilitation services remains limited, fragm...

16/10/2025

Mind Over Matter: Making Mental Health A Priority
Mental health is a right not a privilege

https://www.who.int/thailand/news/detail/16-10-2025-mind-over-matter--making-mental-health-a-priority

10/10/2025

💔💪 เมื่อเกิดวิกฤต การเยียวยาไม่ใช่แค่เรื่องของร่างกาย แต่ยังรวมถึงหัวใจและจิตใจของเราด้วย
การให้ความสำคัญกับ #สุขภาพจิต ในทุกการตอบสนองต่อเหตุฉุกเฉิน
ช่วยรักษาชีวิต เสริมความเข้มแข็ง และปกป้องชุมชน ได้อย่างแท้จริง
🗣️ ผู้นำต้องให้ความสำคัญต่อสุขภาพจิตเป็นลำดับต้นๆ
เพราะการฟื้นตัวมีความหมายมากกว่าการอยู่รอด 💚

10/10/2025

WORLD MENTAL HEALTH DAY 2025
10 OCTOBER 2025

“Mental Health in Humanitarian Emergencies”

Around the world, more than 1 billion people live with a mental health condition, most commonly anxiety or depression. In South-East Asia, as many as 289 million people live with a mental, neurological, self-harm, or substance use condition. We lose 208 000 people to su***de in our region each year, and it tragically remains a leading cause of death of young people worldwide.

This year, World Mental Health Day is being marked with the theme “Mental Health in Humanitarian Emergencies”. It highlights the urgent need for action in a world increasingly affected by armed conflict, natural disasters, pandemics, and economic instability.

Crises impact more than just infrastructure—they deeply affect emotional and psychological well-being. Nearly everyone affected by these events experiences some form of psychological distress, and may develop depression, anxiety, PTSD or other disorders.

In disaster situations, mental health concerns are often compounded by other vulnerabilities like poverty, making access to mental health services not only essential for healing but also for long-term recovery and resilience. Migrants and refugees are particularly prone to risks, with multiple stressors throughout their journey–from conflict and displacement to dangerous journeys and eventual integration challenges in host countries. As of last year, over 123 million people were forcibly displaced worldwide.

Despite the adversity and challenges they bring, emergency situations are also opportunities to transform mental health care. Many countries, including in our region, have been able to seize such moments to reform, transform and improve their mental health systems and services. As they have shown, it is possible to “build back better”.

The World Health Assembly adopted a resolution in 2024 emphasizing the need to strengthen Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) across all phases of emergency response. It calls on countries to implement the WHO Comprehensive Mental Health Action Plan (2013–2030), and to commit to sustained, system-wide investments particularly in community-based, cross-sectoral, and accessible services for vulnerable groups.

In our region the need for MHPSS was reaffirmed by Health Ministers in the Paro Declaration committing to Universal Access to People-centered Mental Health Care and Services. The Declarations calls for MHPSS technical cooperation “to strengthen the response of Member States to address mental health impacts consequent of climate change and humanitarian crises”.

Mental health is central not just to our individual well-being, but to our collective social and economic development. In catastrophes and emergencies, investing in mental health is investing in recovery—helping families, communities, and economies recover from crises, build long-term resilience, and shape stronger health systems.

On World Mental Health Day 2025, let us intensify our efforts to create a world where mental health is valued, protected, and accessible for all—especially in the face of adversity.

Message from

Dr Catharina Boehme Officer-in-Charge
WHO South-East Asia

10/10/2025

เมื่อความเครียดหรือความทุกข์ทางใจเริ่มส่งผลกระทบต่อการทำงาน การเรียน หรือความสัมพันธ์ในชีวิตประจำวัน—พวกเขาควรเข้าถึงบริการดูแลสุขภาพจิต
การเยียวยาไม่ควรเป็นเรื่องที่ต้องเผชิญเพียงลำพัง
matters

10/10/2025

10/10/2025

🌍🧠 ในวันสุขภาพจิตโลก
เราขอชี้ให้เห็นความสำคัญของสุขภาพจิตในวิกฤตการณ์ทางมนุษยธรรม
เมื่อบ้านถูกทำลาย ครอบครัวต้องพลัดพราก การฟื้นฟูต้องรวมถึงการดูแลสุขภาพจิตด้วย
เราต้องมั่นใจว่าการสนับสนุนด้านจิตใจเป็นส่วนหนึ่งของการตอบสนองทุกขั้นตอน—ก่อน ระหว่าง และหลังเกิดวิกฤต 💚

10/10/2025

We are pleased to invite you to our upcoming Expert Hour on Trans Fat Elimination, taking place next week on 16 October from 15.00-16.00 hrs. (Bangkok time). The session will feature country experiences from Saudi Arabia, Singapore, and Thailand, highlighting practical approaches and lessons learned in eliminating industrially produced trans fats from national food supplies.

Registration here in advance: https://tinyurl.com/dzzaf4b5

03/10/2025

On 24 September 2025, WHO Thailand organized a workshop to strengthen collaboration with partners in Preventing and Responding to Sexual Misconduct (PRS).

The session reaffirmed WHO’s zero-tolerance policy on sexual exploitation, abuse, and harassment, and emphasized our shared commitment to protecting the dignity and safety of both the people we work with and the communities we serve.

The workshop brought together over 50 participants from across the Ministry of Public Health, NGOs, and academic institutions. Together, we explored WHO’s PRS policy, tools, frameworks, case studies, and activities inspire commitment to put these principles into practice.

Bangkok, 24 September 2025