Physical activity can improve your mental well-being. Being physically active means moving your body and working your muscles: for example, by walking, running, dancing, swimming, doing yoga or gardening.
Detail around the Human Rights Act, a public authority, how the Human Rights Act protects people with mental health problems, your rights, and what you can do if your human rights haven’t been respected.
As we move into the summer months and parliamentary recess, the ongoing cost-of-living crisis shows no signs of receding. This persistent financial reality is detrimentally impacting the mental health of the nation. Over the last few months, at both the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the Mental Health Foundation, we have been further exploring the impact of this cost-of-living crisis on mental health.
There is much to welcome in the Children and Young People’s Green Paper. It's direct commitment to help prevent mental health problems emerging represents a shift in focus looking upstream to tackle the determinants of these problems at their root.
The Coronavirus: Mental Health in the Pandemic study provides unique insights into the mental health effects of the pandemic since mid-March, with five waves of data collected so far across the UK specifically focused on mental health and well-being.
Today, leading mental health charities and social enterprises have branded the newly-announced Major Conditions Strategy as a betrayal of the government’s promise to develop a visionary new plan for mental health, from cradle to grave, from prevention to treatment.
The Government should urgently respond to today’s Marmot Review 2020 and develop a national action plan to reduce mental health inequalities, says the Mental Health Foundation.
The Mental Health Foundation, the charity that focuses on the prevention of mental health problems, issued guidance today for staying mentally healthy during the Coronavirus outbreak.
