Oct 11 (IPS) – World Mental Health Day was on October 10, 2021. The theme for this year was “Mental Health in an unequal World”. This is an appropriate focus given the extreme inequities to access to mental health services that exist in our society.
Read the full story, “Mental Health at a Cost, Inequality”, on globalissues.org →

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