Summary report on the Expert consultation for identifying core mental health interventions for integration in maternal, child and adolescent health service delivery platforms

The World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, in coordination with United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), held an expert consultation from 12 to 13 December 2016 in Cairo, Egypt, to review core mental health components for integration in maternal, child and adolescent health service delivery platforms. The consultation was attended by global and regional experts, as well as staff from the Regional Office and WHO headquarters.

The objectives of the expert consultation were to: (1) identify the essential mental health interventions to be integrated within maternal, child and adolescent health packages; (2) establish integration mechanisms for the maternal, child and adolescent health/mental health package, as well as delivery channels within the health care platforms; (3) identify the potential entry points for implementation of the integrated package; and (4) develop an implementation/monitoring and evaluation plan for piloting/delivering the integrated package in two countries in the Region (Egypt and Jordan).

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