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• Healthy Bodies, Healthy Minds: Evidence briefing summary (2009): a summary of the best available review-level evidence on the relationships between physical activity and both promoting mental wellbeing and preventing mental health problems in children and young people.
• Healthy Bodies, Healthy Minds: Practitioners briefing (2009): a simple, practical guide which outlines the evidence and provides pointers for practice. This is aimed at a wide range of practitioners who work with children and young people, for example people who work in schools, youth work, health & social care or leisure.
• Stigma: An international Briefing Paper (2008): this briefing paper and accompanying Stigma: A Guidebook for Action have been designed to assist people in understanding discrimination, stigma and social exclusion as experienced by people with mental health problems – what they are, why they matter, where they originate – and in developing strategies and actions to fight them. It is addressed to all those who can reduce the discrimination, stigma and social exclusion experienced by people with mental health problems and by those close to them. This is all of us.
• Stigma: A guidebook for action: this guidebook gives examples of different activities taking place across the WHO European region, and provides simple tools and ideas for action.

Mental Health Improvement Evaluation Guides

This series of guides aim to encourage, support and improve standards in the evaluation of mental health improvement initiatives.

• Mental Health Improvement Evaluation Guide 1: Evidence based practice (2005)
• Mental Health Improvement Evaluation Guide 2: Measuring success (2005)
• Mental Health Improvement Evaluation Guide 3: Getting results (2005)
• Mental Health Improvement Evaluation Guide 4: Making an impact (2005)
• Mental Health Improvement Evaluation Guide 5: Selecting scales to assess mental wellbeing in adults (2005)

Reviewed 5 February 2010