The EU Mutual Learning Programme in Gender Equality

Subtitle:Gender equality, mental health and gender mainstreaming health policies: comments paper – Belgium

The Belgian Mental Health Care organisation was substantially reformed (Art 107) in 2010, to orient mental health care towards a reduction of residential hospital care in favour of recovery and reintegration treatment in the community. This reform did not have a specific focus on decreasing gender disparities in mental health care use, even though all newly implemented policies within Belgium are mandated to be subject to gender mainstreaming. However, gender-segregated statistics on (mental) health issues are reported regularly. The monitoring of problematic media use is mainly performed through independent scientific studies. Several destigmatising campaigns have been developed within the Belgian context, but to the best of our knowledge, these have not had a gender focus.

Publication year:2021

Keywords:P3 Proceeding

Accessibility:Open