The National Mental Health Program

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...

The National Institute of Mental Health Report

This article reports some of the most promising ideas to emerge from a review conducted by the National Institute of Mental Health of the achievements and prospects for research on the prevention of mental disorders. These ideas are organized around 3 conceptual hubs: the development and transformation of biological and social risk and protective factors across the life span, classifying and re...

The Provisional National Council for Mental Health

Evaluation of the National Health Care Reform Program from the Perspective of Experts

Background: Health is a national priority and it is always a duty of the government to establish a good and fair health system. The National heath care system reform program and evaluation of health system reform plan funding these programs were enforced by the Honorable Minister of Health and Medical Education on May 5th, 2014. Given the importance of this issue, the present study was conduc...

Evidence for the effectiveness of a national school-based mental health program in Chile.

OBJECTIVE Skills for Life (SFL) is the largest school-based mental health program in the world, screening and providing services to more than 1,000,000 students in Chile over the past decade. This is the first external evaluation of the program. METHOD Of the 8,372 primary schools in Chile in 2010 that received public funding, one-fifth (1,637) elected to participate in SFL. Each year, all fi...