The EU Mutual Learning Programme in Gender Equality : Gender equality, mental health and gender mainstreaming health policies: comments paper – Belgium

Abstract: 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 perf... Mehr ...