Practitioners' positive attitudes promote shared decision‐making in mental health care

Using financial incentives to promote shared mental health care.

OBJECTIVES To consider the most common primary care reimbursement structures, to identify incentives inherent in each, and to discuss how each could be used to encourage a shared-care approach to treating mental disorders at the primary care level. METHOD Three major financial reimbursement models--fee-for-service, capitation, and blended payment mechanisms--are examined. Each is considered i...

Shared mental health care in Canada.

Consumer Decisionmaking in the Health Care Marketplace

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What do practitioners think? A qualitative study of a shared care mental health and nutrition primary care program

OBJECTIVE To develop an in-depth understanding of a shared care model from primary mental health and nutrition care practitioners with a focus on program goals, strengths, challenges and target population benefits. DESIGN Qualitative method of focus groups. SETTING/PARTICIPANTS The study involved fifty-three practitioners from the Hamilton Health Service Organization Mental Health and Nutri...

Supporting positive dimensions of health, challenges in mental health care

This paper will explore two contrasting paradigms in mental health care and their relationship to evidence-based practice. The biomedical perspective of pathogenesis and the health perspective of salotogenesis are two major diverse views in mental health care. Positive dimensions of health are traditionally viewed as software not suitable for statistical analysis, while absence of symptoms of d...