Mental health EN

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Robert van Voren, Director of the Andrei Sakharov Research Center for Democratic Development at Vytautas Magnus University

It might seem premature to start a discussion about future pandemics, but in fact it is already overdue. Three months into the lock-down that gripped the majority of people living on the planet and has already unprecedented effects on the global community, we can already see where many things have g...

Robert van Voren, Director of the Andrei Sakharov Research Center for Democratic Development at Vytautas Magnus University

There are news stories that you read and for some reason stay with you for a long time. They trigger an emotion inside as if they touched a button, a sensitive spot.

Prof. Robert van Voren, head of Vytautas Magnus University’s Andrei Sakharov Research Centre for Democratic Development

Over the past two decades mental health has made quite a progress in moving up the global political agenda. In the 1990s mental health was definitely not considered as such, and it took an extensive study carried out under auspices of the World Health Organization to convince the World Bank that the...