Social inclusion: a fundamental PROM for evaluating recovery-oriented global mental health programmes

Abstract Social inclusion is a multidimensional concept, referring to ample participation in key social, cultural, economic and political activities. Since the turn of century, social has become guiding principle policy recommendations many international (United Nations, WHO, EU) national bodies, aiming improve lives people with mental ill-health. More recently, been increasingly used as an outcome measure, test effectiveness complex interventions, especially field global health. This presentation will focus on: (1) current definitions controversies research on for ill-health; (2) measuring inclusion; (3) evidence-base interventions inclusion. Special attention be given recovery-oriented health such peer support. In summary, over last years, impressive conceptual methodological advances have made transform rhetoric into meaningful effective interventions. However, challenges remain, including consensus culturally appropriate measurement inclusion, balancing roles responsibilities all stakeholders (service users, service providers, wider society) across entire exclusion-inclusion continuum promoting Disclosure Interest None Declared