mental health: the need to alert

Web alert: quality in mental health care.

Mental health symptoms are common in the general population, and people with mental health disorders consult their general practitioner (GP) twice as often as those without. Mental health disorders comprise about a quarter of all general practice consultations. The last few years have seen a raft of new legislation and policies regarding primary care and mental health. TheNHSPlan (2000)was the ...

Community mental health in Peshawar, the need to reform.

Community mental health is a neglected field in many developing countries including Pakistan. Common mental disorders are high in prevalence, particularly in women. Community mental health services are lacking in Peshawar, which faces a number of challenges owing to sociopolitical instability. The aim of this literature review is to evaluate and interpret current research relevant to community ...

Measuring the need for mental health care.

The need to pay attention to differences in health literacy and knowledge in health education interventions

The Health Literacy (HL) is an individual and social capacity for access, understanding, evaluation of information and health services, and optimal utilization of it for health promotion [1]. Today, HL has been recognized as an important and vital indicator of the results and costs of health care the need for the effective health care system, has a good level of health literacy [2]. According t...

Therapists in mental health need to become more visible.

they are knowledgeable in the treatment of this population; they are often limited to hiring graduates withOUl experience to fill their funding requirements. As an educator and a former academic educator, we recognize the difficulties of teaching a clinical profession in an academic setting. It is imperative that we require students wishing to treat a specific population to gain clinical experi...

Positive mental health need for holistic approach.

Mental health is not just the absence of mental disorder, but is a state in which an individual has a sense of well being in which he or she realizes his or her own potential, can cope with the normal stresses of life and thus can work productively and fruitfully and is able to contribute to their own community. Mental illness is not uncommon with approximately 450 million people affected globa...