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FREMED General Objectives 

FREMED General Objectives

 The aim of FREMED has been to qualitatively and quantitatively improve mental health policy practices and potential in Europe.

• This aimed to be achieved by assuring the maximum impact of the recently completed ESEMeD/MHEDEA and other related European studies through analyses, data synthesis and translation, and effective dissemination to the relevant stakeholders.
• By formal evaluation of the dissemination and through provision of training and mobility, the project helped at consolidating a multidisciplinary community better able to address mental health policy information research in Europe.

FREMED builds on a previous successful research collaboration, and focuses on the crucial area of mental health (disorders prevalence and burden; risk factors including poverty, immigration and religion; and services utilisation, with emphasis on unmet need for care). This fills a gap in evidence-based European policy making and feeds another PHP project: Euro Health Expectancy Monitoring Unit -EHEMU.

Co-ordination with other relevant activities, in particular those under the Public Health Programme, and with the Working Party on Mental Health has also been assured.