Improving Global Knowledge Exchange for Mental Health Systems Improvement

Global Mental Health: sharing and synthesizing knowledge for sustainable development

Global mental health (GMH) is a growing domain with an increasing capacity to positively impact the world community's efforts for sustainable development and wellbeing. Sharing and synthesizing GMH and multi-sectoral knowledge, the focus of this paper, is an important way to support these global efforts. This paper consolidates some of the most recent and relevant 'context resources' [global mu...

Improving mental health systems in Africa.

Improving mental health outcomes: achieving equity through quality improvement

OBJECTIVE To investigate equity of patient outcomes in a psychological therapy service, following increased access achieved by a quality improvement (QI) initiative. DESIGN Retrospective service evaluation of health outcomes; data analysed by ANOVA, chi-squared and Statistical Process Control. SETTING A psychological therapy service in Westminster, London, UK. PARTICIPANTS People living i...

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...

Information for global mental health

BACKGROUND Information is needed for development of mental health (MH) services; and particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LAMICs), where the MH systems are relatively weak. World Health Organization (WHO) has worked intensively during the last 15 years for developing a strategy in the field of MH information. METHODS The paper analyzes WHO instruments developed in this area [MH A...