ABSTRACT
This chapter offers ideas for comprehensive strategies to help states respect, protect, and fulfil the right to mental health, and to implement and enforce such strategies within available resources. A rights approach requires advancing the dignity and welfare of persons with mental disabilities, simultaneously helping to fulfil the UN health-related Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3 within the new UN Agenda. The right to health is rooted in economic, social, and cultural rights protected by numerous international Conventions. Focused, evidence-based, actionable, and inclusive targets and indicators ought to strengthen the right to health, and evidence its impact on social and economic determinants and development. SDG progress requires monitoring by clear indicators that promote multi-sector approaches and inter-SDG integration, along with sustainable funding. Six interconnected components for the development of human resources are proposed: policy, health workforce management, finance, education, partnerships, and leadership.
