ProMenpol | Promoting and Protecting Mental Health - Supporting Policy through Integration of Research, Current Approaches and Practices.

Welcome to the ProMenPol Website

This is the website of ProMenPol which aims to support the practices and policies of mental health promotion in three settings: schools, workplaces and older people’s residences.

To do so, ProMenPol has produced the following services and outputs:

Tools Database
Field trials
ProMenPol Toolkit

The following Fact Sheet summarises the project's activities. ProMenPol Fact Sheet

Register as a PROMENPOL Member

PROMENPOL is a free service that enables its Members to upload documents on to various parts of the ProMenPol website in addition to receiving the PROMENPOL Newsletter.

News

The 7th World Conference on the Promotion of Mental Health and the Prevention of Mental and Behavioural Disorders
13/03/2012
The 7th World Conference on the Promotion of Mental Health and the Prevention of Mental and Behavioural Disorders, will take place in Perth Oct 17.-19., 2012: Call for Papers is Due 31st March.

The conference aims to cultivate partnerships incorporating science, policy and programmes. It offers an opportunity to convene policy makers, researchers, practitioners, and those living with a mental illness and their families to share and learn about effective policies and strategies for promotion and prevention.
Plan for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Work – MIELI 2009
03/12/2010
The Ministry of Social Affairs and Health in Finland has published the proposals of the Mieli 2009 (Mind 2009) working group that was appointed to develop proposals for mental health and substance abuse work in years to come. The plan outlines the core principles and priorities for the future of mental health and substance abuse work until 2015, starting from the premise that these issues play a major role in public health. For the first time in Finland, this plan is setting joint objectives for this work at the national level.

Events

The 10th Nordic Public Health Conference Turku, Finland 24-26.8.2011
24/08/2011 - 26/08/2011
The 10th Nordic Public Health Conference Turku, Finland 24-26.8.2011.
Culture, Health and Well-being -conference 21.-24.9.2011 in Turku, Finland
21/09/2011 - 24/09/2011
The International Congress on Culture, Health and Well-being (CultWell) is to be held in Turku, Finland, on 21-24 September 2011.

The congress aims to explore the link between culture, health and well-being, to identify methodological possibilities of the field, to consider what constitutes well-being, healthy life, and happiness, to share best practices involving culture and health to improve well-being and to promote artists` health and well-being.
Mental Health in Workplace Settings
03/03/2011 - 04/03/2011
A thematic conference on Mental Health in Workplace Settings will be organised on 03-04 March 2011 in Berlin
10th World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion,
21/09/2010 - 24/09/2010
Safety 2010 is a major world conference bringing together stakeholders in the prevention of unintentional injuries and violence from around the world to debate, discuss and exchange information and experiences.

The key theme of the conference is Safe and Equitable Communities. This theme has been chosen to reflect the disproportionate burden from almost all types of injuries that falls on poorer communities. Such differences are apparent both within countries, between countries and even between global regions.