The Inaugural Australasian Mental Health and Higher Education Conference 2017: conference information and book of abstracts

Abstract

Mental health difficulties, as we know, are an invisible malady that affects all of us either directly or indirectly and hence the statement - "Mental health is everyone's business". Mental health and wellbeing among students represents an important growing public health concern.With Australian research suggesting that there is a high prevalence rate of students experiencing mental health difficulties in universities, mental health and wellbeing is a significant issue for higher education