Editorial: Improving mental health systems in Africa

Improving mental health systems in Africa.

Editorial: Aging and Mental Health

According to the " Mental Health Action Plan 2013–2020 " (WHO, 2013), mental health is an integral part of health and well-being and includes not only individual characteristics but also social, cultural, economic political, and environmental factors. The report recognizes that depending on the context certain groups, such as older people, are at higher risk of having mental health problems and...

Mental health policy in Africa.

81 In 2007, a landmark series of papers on mental health appeared in The Lancet. 1 Some of the key messages emerging from the series were that mental disorders are inextricably linked with other concerns: there can be " no health without mental health " ; mental disorders affect people in all societies, but especially the disadvantaged, vulnerable and poor; mental disorders are a leading cause ...

A Case for Open Network Health Systems: Systems as Networks in Public Mental Health

Increases in incidents involving so-called confused persons have brought attention to the potential costs of recent changes to public mental health (PMH) services in the Netherlands. Decentralized under the (Community) Participation Act (2014), local governments must find resources to compensate for reduced central funding to such services or “innovate.” But innovation, even when pressure for c...

Improving mental health in prisons.

‘I am able to separate the person from his behaviour’ – clinical nurse specialist Jacqueline Bell-Walsh brings a range of skills to her new role. When Jacqueline Bell-Walsh was appointed the first in-reach mental health clinician to pilot a new programme at Spring Hill Corrections Facility in the Waikato town of Te Kauwhata, it was an opportunity to use the very best of her skills. Bell-Walsh b...