Bush unveils mental health action plan

Comprehensive mental health action plan 2013-2020.

Twenty years ago, a book was published entitled World mental health: problems and priorities in low-income countries (1). A few years later in 2001, the World Health Organization (WHO) devoted its World Health Report to Mental health: new understanding, new hope (2), and the Institute of Medicine in the United States of America brought out Neurological, psychiatric, and developmental disorders:...

World Health Assembly adopts Comprehensive Mental Health Action Plan 2013–2020

1970 www.thelancet.com Vol 381 June 8, 2013 On May 27, 2013, the World Health Assembly adopted the Comprehensive Mental Health Action Plan 2013–2020 that has great potential to change the direction of mental health in countries around the world in the next 8 years. This action plan and the accompanying resolution—a fi rst in the history of WHO—represent a formal recognition of the importance of...

Strategy and plan of action on mental health for the Region of Americas.

Expenditures for Mental Health Services in the Utah Prepaid Mental Health Plan

This article examines the effect of a mental health carve-out, the Utah Prepaid Mental Health Plan (UPMHP), on expenditures for mental health treatment and utilization of mental health services for Medicaid beneficiaries from July 1991 through December 1994. Three Community Mental Health Centers (CMHCs) provided mental health services to Medicaid beneficiaries in their catchment areas in return...

Designing Health System Development Action Plan with a Physical Education and Sport Approach

The aim of this study was to design health system action plan development with a physical education and sport approach to implementing the codified strategies derived from this research. The research method was descriptive and applied in terms of objectives. The statistical population  was included senior managers, knowledgeable experts in physical education activities of the headquarters of th...