Community-oriented collaboration for mental health care and mental health promotion

Community-oriented collaboration for mental health care and mental health promotion

partnership between schools and clusters of general practices, how music and the arts can contribute to healing and building communities. We will highlight the social and occupational impacts on mental health at all stages of life – parents, schools, workplace, retirement, the third age, end of life. We will argue that primary care does not have to do all of this, but that it is key to orchestr...

Integrating primary mental health care and mental health promotion.

community mental health promotion: a brief review

the concept of health promotion, first appeared in 1975, introduced a new perspective for health activities. as a consequences, the world health organization (who) suggested that attention to health promotion needs should take precedence over treatment and prevention. this concept gradually developed into mental health field and now community mental health is the core policy and orientation of ...

Health Promotion and Aging "mental Health"

Intgoduction: The emphasis in this paper is on the direction that health promotion efforts might take to enhance the mental health of the elderly by building on the established effectiveness of primary, secondary and tertiary health care interventions. This approach accepts that health promotion strategies should invoke the capacity of elderly persons to take responsibility for their health sty...

A community needs assessment for rural mental health promotion.

This paper describes the needs assessment phase of a mental health promotion programme for rural communities in Ireland. As part of a larger study encompassing four rural communities, a cross-sectional study of the mental health beliefs and perceptions of 1014 people was carried out. Employing a combination of interviewer-administered questionnaire and the vignette method, the needs assessment ...