Implementing co-production in mental health organizations

Implementing the Mental Health Act

Residential Accommodation and Day Centres The proposals put forward for hostels vary considerably : the majority see the need for something extra and some plan special hostels for the aged and mentally infirm; some for patients discharged from mental hospitals; some use the hostels of voluntary organisations, some their own. Little is said about the need to collaborate with mental hospitals but...

Partnership Development Among Mental Health Organizations

Co-Operation in Mental Health Administration

As an effort has been made in Oxford City to coordinate all Mental Health services under the administrative control of the Medical Officer of Health it is thought that it may be of interest to the workers in other areas to hear of the results of this experiment. The coordinating Committee set out with the idea of treating all forms of mental disability as questions of Public Health to be dealt ...

Implementing the Mental Health Act in Ghana: any challenges ahead?

Ghana successfully passed a Mental Health Act law in March 2012. The passing of the Act was a culmination of a lot of work by various individuals and institutions spanning several decades. Finally there is a raised prospect of the delivery of a better quality mental healthcare and also the protection of human rights of people with mental disorders in Ghana. This paper identifies and describes c...

Knowledge gaps in implementing global mental health activities

Global mental health has rapidly attracted increasing attention by health policy makers and researchers during the last 10 years. The groundwork for this shift was laid in data beingmade available on the prevalence (Demyttenaere et al. 2004) and burden (Lopez et al. 2006) of mental disorders and also on the resources allocated to mental health within countries (WHO, 2001, 2005, 2011, 2015). Pub...