Policy Forum North Carolina’s Evolving Mental Health System

North Carolina and the evolving global health policy agenda.

Triaging Mental Health Forum Posts

Online mental health forums provide users with an anonymous support platform that is facilitated by moderators responsible for finding and addressing critical posts, especially those related to self-harm. Given the seriousness of these posts, it is important that the moderators are able to locate these critical posts quickly in order to respond with timely support. We approached the task of aut...

Juvenile Justice System and Mental Health Policy

This study presented national data on financing policies and practices for health and mental health care among children in child welfare settings, including those who are not placed out of the home. Our three objectives were to: examine variation in the provision of health insurance with a specific focus on placement status; describe mechanisms for assuring timing of coverage; and compare Medic...

Policy Forum Grand Challenges: Integrating Mental Health Services into Priority Health Care Platforms

1 Centre for Global Mental Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom, 2 Sangath, Goa, India, 3 Centre for Mental Health, Public Health Foundation of India, India, 4 Program in Global Mental Health, New York University School of Medicine, New York, United States of America, 5 New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, New York, United States of America, 6 Simon Fr...

Cross-National Diffusion of Mental Health Policy

Background Following the tenets of world polity and innovation diffusion theories, I focus on the coercive and mimetic forces that influence the diffusion of mental health policy across nations. International organizations’ mandates influence government behavior. Dependency on external resources, namely foreign aid, also affects governments’ formulation of national policy. And finally, mounting...