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Mental health advocacy is a relatively new concept, developed with a view to reducing stigma and discrimination, and promoting the human rights of people with mental disorders. It consists of various actions aimed at changing the major structural and attitudinal barriers to achieving positive mental health outcomes in populations. This module draws attention to the importance of advocacy in mental health policy and service development. The roles of various mental health groups in advocacy are outlined. Practical steps are then recommended, indicating how ministries of health can support advocacy.

Behavioral health care --- Diensten voor geestelijke gezondheidszorg --- Emotional health --- Geestelijke gezondheid --- Geestelijke gezondheidszorg--Diensten --- Mental health --- Mental health care --- Mental health services --- Mental hygiene --- Patient advocacy --- Patienten--Bescherming --- Patienten--Verdediging --- Patients--Defense --- Patients--Protection --- Psychiatric care --- Psychiatric services --- Santé mentale --- Services de santé mentale --- Mentally ill --- Right to health --- Behavioral Disciplines and Activities --- Social Control, Formal --- Human Rights --- Disabled Persons --- Social Control Policies --- Sociology --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Policy --- Persons --- Health Care Economics and Organizations --- Health Care --- Social Sciences --- Named Groups --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Patient Advocacy --- Public Policy --- Mental Health Services --- Patient Rights --- Mentally Ill Persons --- Public Health --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Mental Illness Prevention --- Care --- Mental health services. --- Mentally ill. --- Patient advocacy. --- Mental health policy. --- Centra voor geestelijke gezondheidszorg --- Geestelijke gezondheidszorg --- Mental health and state --- State and mental health --- Advocacy, Health care --- Advocacy, Patient --- Health care advocacy --- Nonlegal patient advocacy --- Social patient advocacy --- Insane --- Mental illness --- Mental patients --- Mentally disordered --- Government policy --- Patients --- Medical policy --- Medical care --- Advance directives (Medical care) --- Patients' associations --- Sick --- People with mental disabilities --- Quality control