The World Health Organization Assessment Instrument for Mental Health Systems (WHO-AIMS)
The World Health Organization Assessment Instrument for Mental Health Systems (WHO-AIMS) is a WHO tool for collecting essential information on the mental health system of a country or region. The goal of collecting this information has been to improve mental health systems and to provide a baseline for monitoring the change. WHO-AIMS was primarily intended for assessing mental health systems in low- and middle-income countries.
The WHO-AIMS project was a WHO project one to two decades ago. While the instrument is not necessarily outdated, WHO no longer actively engages in WHO-AIMS data collection, focusing instead on the Mental Health Atlas project. The WHO-AIMS country reports and instrument are reflected here for historical reasons and to enable countries to make comparisons over time.
Note that great care was taken to ensure the reliability of the data presented in the WHO-AIMS country reports. Data for WHO-AIMS were collected by a team led by a focal point within the country and were approved by the Ministry of Health. However, since WHO was not directly responsible for the data collection, WHO did not independently verify the accuracy of any of the data presented in these reports.
The WHO-AIMS Instrument
WHO-AIMS Instrument
WHO-AIMS country profiles
WHO-AIMS Argentina 2006 (Spanish)
WHO-AIMS Azerbaijan 2006 (Azerbaijani)
WHO-AIMS Bolivia 2006 (Spanish)
WHO-AIMS British Virgin Islands 2006
WHO-AIMS Burundi 2006 (French)
WHO-AIMS China: Hunan province 2006
WHO-AIMS Costa Rica 2006 (Spanish)
WHO-AIMS Djibouti 2006 (French)
WHO-AIMS Dominican Republic 2006 (Spanish)
WHO-AIMS El Salvador 2006 (Spanish)
WHO-AIMS Guatemala 2006 (Spanish)
WHO-AIMS Honduras 2006 (Spanish)
WHO-AIMS India-Uttarakhand 2006
WHO-AIMS Iran (Islamic Republic of) 2006
WHO-AIMS Kyrgyzstan (The Kyrgyz Republic) 2006
WHO-AIMS Lao People’s Democratic Republic 2006
WHO-AIMS Mexico 2006 (Spanish)
WHO-AIMS Mogadishu and South/Central Somalia 2006
WHO-AIMS Nicaragua 2006 (Spanish)
WHO-AIMS Panama 2006 (Spanish)
WHO-AIMS Paraguay 2006 (Spanish)
WHO-AIMS Puerto Rico 2006 (Spanish)
WHO-AIMS Republic of Korea 2006
WHO-AIMS Saint Kitts and Nevis 2006
WHO-AIMS Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 2006
WHO-AIMS Somaliland Region of Somalia 2006
WHO-AIMS The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia 2006
WHO-AIMS Trinidad and Tobago 2006