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Resources on Mental Health 

Egypt's New Mental Health Bill: A First Step on the Right Path

Ministry of Public Health 2019-2022

National Strategy to Combat Violence Against Women

Egypt Law 71-2009

Egypt Law 210-2020

Statistics on the Region and on Mental Health in Egypt

Mental Health Indicators: Mental Health Indicators for Community and Primary Care Mental Health Delivery

Opposing Acts

General on Mental Health in MENA

Population National Strategy

Complex Systems Approaches to Understand Drivers of Mental Health and Inform Mental Health Policy: A Systematic Review

Addressing Unmet Needs in Women’s Mental Health

Women and Mental Health

WHO, Mental Health Action Plan 2013-2020

Mental Health and Substance Use

WHO MiNDbank: Mental Health Strategies and Plans

WHO Mental Health Indicators (country specific and sometimes gender disaggregated)

Resources on Gender

Gender Differences in Mental Health in the Middle East

General Global Information in Gender Disparities

Blog Post on MENA Women’s Rates of Depression

Lockdowns Widen the Gender Gap in Mental Health

Gender and Health Services use for a Mental Health Problem

Complex Systems Approaches to Understand Drivers of Mental Health and Inform Mental Health Policy: A Systematic Review

Gendered Influences on Adolescent Mental Health in Low-Income and Middle-Income Countries: Recommendations from an Expert Convening. The LANCET: Child & Adolescent Health

Understanding and Tackling the Gendered Drivers of Poor Adolescent Mental Health 

WHO Focus on Women

Evidence for Gender Responsive Actions to Promote Mental Health Young People’s Health as a Whole-of-Society Response

Resources on Public Health

Overview on Public Health in MENA

Maternal Health and Statistics in the Region

Anti Sexual Harassment Policies/ workplace

Resources on Other Countries 

New Zealand

Implementing a New Governance Model: Lessons from a New Zealand Statutory Mental Health Organization

United Kingdom
UK’s Taskforce on Women’s Mental Health

Qatar
Qatar’s Strategy on National Mental Health Framework

Hong Kong, China and New South Wales, Australia

Making the Subjects of Mental Health Care: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Mental Health Policy in Hong Kong, China and New South Wales, Australia

United States of America

Maternal Mental Health: Program and Policy Implications. 

Women’s Mental Health Across the Life Course through a Sex-Gender Lens

Oman and Egypt - Adolescents
Depression and Associated Factors were Determined for Secondary School Adolescents (1577 in Alexandria, Egypt)

Related Theses

Violence Against Women in Egypt: Public Policies and Services

The Role of Online and Social Media in Combating Sexual Harassment in Egypt

Combatting Street Sexual Harassment in Egypt: Policy Implementation Challenges and Way Forward

The "Second Sex" vs. The Forgotten Sex: Exploring the Missing Masculinity Component and the Involvement of Men in Gender and Development in Egypt

Are We Intensifying the Stigma? A Content Analysis of Movies Portraying Mental and Psychological Illnesses in the Egyptian Cinema

The Association between Health Financing and Maternal and Child Health in Middle East and North Africa Countries

Beyond Mental and Physical Pain: A Non-Reductive Account of Suicide