title: [Hungarian psychiatry in the light of the Hungarian Presidency of the Council of the European Union].
abstract: In order to get an accurate picture of mental health and psychiatric care, the article reviews the relevant structures and functioning of the European Union. It examines a few, important professional events that reflect the gaining significance of the issue of mental health within the EU; the 2005 World Health Organization's European Ministerial Conference, the 2008 European Pact for Mental Health and Well-being, and the results of the so-called Thematic Conferences. For the future of the European Union, the articles stresses the crucial need for the continuing research and development, and highlights the benefits of the European Research Region an its framework programmes especially in the fields of brain research and mental health research. The issue of mental health, its care providing system, and the atmosphere of the work place, as the surveying of the Eurobarometer underscored, should be treated as priorities for the EU and during the Hungarian presidency. The programme of the Hungarian Presidency of the Council of the European Union provides priority to the presentation of the European Pact for Mental Health and Well-being to the Council Conclusion, as well as to the organization of a priority research presidential conference on the regions R and D, entitled "Discovery research in neuropsychiatry: depression, anxiety and schizophrenia in focus." The articles emphasizes the challenges of Hungarian psychiatry, first and foremost the difficulties of human resources, the theoretical context and determined perspectives for the establishment of the new National Psychiatry and Addictology Institute, the need of the move towards GP's and community care, and the importance of the cooperation with civil organizations, and scientific information gathering. The given tasks can only be achieved along with the professional development of psychiatry, with a change of perspectives towards EU since a concentrated multi level allocation of resources is only possible in the forms of collaboration between different national and international bodies. Taking advantage of the Hungarian Presidency in order to achieve these goals will influence the future of both the European and Hungarian psychiatry.
authors.affiliation: Magyar Pszichiátriai Társaság, elnök, Az EU Lelki Egészség Dosszié Felelőse, Budapest, Hungary. tamas.kurimay@janoskorhaz.hu
authors.forename: Tamás
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kurimay
mesh_terms: D003226:Congresses as Topic; D005062:European Union / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D006814:Hungary; D007391:International Cooperation; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000628:therapy; D008603:Mental Health; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000639:trends*; D012106:Research / Q000639:trends; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000209:etiology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D017132:Workplace / Q000523:psychology