The Lancet Commission on Global Mental Health and Sustainable Development, 2018

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represent an exponential advance from the Millennium Development Goals, with a substantially broader agenda affecting all nations and requiring coordinated global actions. The specific references to mental health and substance use as targets within the health SDG reflect this transformative vision. In 2007, a series of papers in The Lancet synthesised\decades of interdisciplinary research and practice in diverse contexts and called the global community to action to scale up services for people affected by mental disorders (including substance use disorders, self harm, and dementia), in particular in low income and middle income countries in which the attainment of human rights to care and dignity were most seriously com promised. 10 years on, this Commission reassesses the global mental health agenda in the context of the SDGs.