Today, at the Ministry of Health, the presentation of the Manual of Primary Health Care for Children and Adolescents of the WHO “WHO Pocket Book of Primary Health Care for Children and Adolescents” took place. The Deputy Minister of Health Mina Gaga and the Deputy Minister of Health, Zoe Rapti welcomed the Regional Director of WHO Europe, Dr. Hans Kluge, Director of the Department of Health Policies and Systems of WHO countries in Europe, Dr. Natasha Azzopardi Muscat, as well as advisors of the WHO Europe, including Dr. Pavlos Theodorakis and Dr. Joao Breda.
About Dr. Martin Weber, Head of the WHO Quality Assurance Office in Athens gave an extensive presentation of the Handbook.
The Handbook includes information on how to promote mental health for all children, as well as information that enables primary care providers to identify and manage common mental health conditions at primary care level and through referral, in collaboration with mental health professionals. health.
The Deputy Minister of Health praised the initiative of the WHO for this issue. He said the book is an important aid tool for health professionals both in our country – and especially in island and remote areas – and in the rest of Europe.
The Deputy Minister of Health, among other things, stated:
“Along with the ongoing reform of primary health care, we are completing the reform of mental health care in our country.
Half of all mental health problems in adulthood begin during or before adolescence, and the Covid-19 pandemic has worsened the mental health status of many children and adolescents.
Mental health care services provided within the community that are fully integrated into the core primary health care services are vital to promoting, protecting and improving the mental health and well-being of our children and adolescents.
Today I had the honor to deliver to our Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis the preliminary summary of the National Action Plan for Mental Health of Greece and at its center is a Program for Mental Health of Children and Adolescents, which is completed in full by the Handbook for Children and Adolescents of the WHO “.
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