Becker's Healthcare November 26, 2025
Ella Ruder

The World Health Organization released a comprehensive report detailing its latest strategies to improve behavioral health worldwide. The document identifies urgent, system-level gaps, underscores the need for sustained investment in mental health services and calls on governments to embed behavioral health into primary care systems.

Here are four things to know:

  1. The report reinforces the need to reduce reliance on psychiatric hospitals. WHO recommends reallocating funds to primary care, community services and crisis response. This aligns with U.S. trends emphasizing crisis stabilization units, mobile response teams and behavioral health integration.
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Topics: Mental Health, Patient / Consumer, Provider, Survey / Study, Trends
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