Challenges of building community mental health care

Challenges of Building a Simulation Model of the German Mental Health Care System

We are currently developing a simulation model of the German mental health care system. We believe that it might support analyses of the provision system and evaluations of possible future trends. But trends cannot be unified easily. Relevant parameters of health care providers diverge strongly even in similar areas considering demographic and economic aspects. A suitable mathematical descripti...

Mental health care in the community.

Ethical dilemmas in community mental health care.

Ethical dilemmas in community mental health care is the focus of this article. The dilemmas are derived from a discussion of the results of a qualitative research project that took place in five countries of the European Union. The different stakeholders are confronted with the following dilemmas: community care versus hospital care (clients); a life with care versus a life without care (inform...

Supporting positive dimensions of health, challenges in mental health care

This paper will explore two contrasting paradigms in mental health care and their relationship to evidence-based practice. The biomedical perspective of pathogenesis and the health perspective of salotogenesis are two major diverse views in mental health care. Positive dimensions of health are traditionally viewed as software not suitable for statistical analysis, while absence of symptoms of d...

[Mental Health Declaration for Europe "facing the challenges, building solution"].