Quality and rights toolkit – report of a regional training of Trainer's in the Eastern Mediterranean Region

The Eastern Mediterranean (EM) is one of the six regions of the World Health Organisation, stretching from Pakistan in the east to Morocco in the west spanning the Gulf and Red Sea littoral states having a combined population of almost 600 million (10 per cent of the global population) (WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, 2012).

Mental, neurological and substance (MNS) disorders are responsible for the loss of 11.2 per cent of disability-adjusted life-years, and account for 27 per cent of the years lived with disability in the EM region. Yet despite the burden and economic impact...