The UN have adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and mental health is included - A historic step for mental health! Now the UN need to make the SDGs work and measured with indicators. These are currently negotiated by the UN indicators experts committee IAEG-SDG. Only with strong SDG indicators mental health will really count in the development Agenda2030.
Now time is of the essence to push for powerful mental health indicators! FundaMentalSDG proposes 2 indicators:
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You can Take Action:
FundaMentalSDG has drafted a position paper and supporting documents (see below). Please send these documents to your national statistics department (if you have a direct contact to them, or to a general email address). In addition, you can also send these to UN STATs: statistics@un.org, with a simple email asking for inclusion of the indicators 23 & 28. Thank you for your support! ![]()
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