From Mad in South Asia: Public spending on health in India is one of the lowest in the world and mental health has remained the least priority in India’s public health sector. Discrimination against the mental health sector in policy making is explicit for India has had a national mental health programme since 1982 without a national mental health policy in place. India’s first national mental health policy was launched in 2014 (32 years after the national mental health programme was launched), making a rare, paradoxical case of programmes without a policy.
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