This report was written by Dr Lynne Friedli for the WHO Regional Office for Europe. The Office would like to thank members of the Reference Group for their invaluable comments and suggestions and colleagues who made time to attend a peer review seminar on this paper hosted by the Mental Health Foundation. Thanks also to Dr Gyles Glover and to colleagues who attended seminars hosted by the Journal of Public Mental Health in partnership with the Scottish Development Centre for Mental Health, the Glasgow Centre for Population Health and the Scottish Government. These events contributed centrally to.