Government to choose lead sites for mental health reform

Peruvian Mental Health Reform: A Framework for Scaling-up Mental Health Services

Background Mental, neurological, and substance (MNS) use disorders are a leading cause of disability worldwide; specifically in Peru, MNS affect 1 in 5 persons. However, the great majority of people suffering from these disorders do not access care, thereby making necessary the improvement of existing conditions including a major rearranging of current health system structures beyond care deliv...

Time to implement national mental health reform.

“We look forward to specific decisions the Government is prepared to take in response to the NMHC ecommendations” At the halfway point of its first term, the Abbott Government has finally released the 700-page report of the National Review of Mental Health Programmes and Services, Contributing lives, thriving communities.1 Fulfilling a 2013 election commitment, Health Minister Dutton had reques...

Reform issues for insuring mental health care.

Australian mental health reform for perinatal care.

Defining best practices for specialty geriatric mental health outreach services: lessons for implementing mental health reform.

OBJECTIVE This paper reviews fundamental areas that inform best practices for outreach services as they relate to shared care, education, and program and systems development and illustrates a framework for defining best practices. METHOD We examined literature that addresses the needs and characteristics of older persons with mental illness, studies that investigate geriatric mental health ou...