نتایج جستجو برای: mental health policy

تعداد نتایج: 1334373  

2016
J. Abdulmalik L. Kola O. Gureje

INTRODUCTION A health systems approach to understanding efforts for improving health care services is gaining traction globally. A component of this approach focuses on health system governance (HSG), which can make or mar the successful implementation of health care interventions. Very few studies have explored HSG in low- and middle-income countries, including Nigeria. Studies focusing on men...

2017
James Mugisha Jibril Abdulmalik Charlotte Hanlon Inge Petersen Crick Lund Nawaraj Upadhaya Shalini Ahuja Rahul Shidhaye Ntokozo Mntambo Atalay Alem Oye Gureje Fred Kigozi

BACKGROUND Mental, neurological and substance use disorders contribute to a significant proportion of the world's disease burden, including in low and middle income countries (LMICs). In this study, we focused on the health systems required to support integration of mental health into primary health care (PHC) in Ethiopia, India, Nepal, Nigeria, South Africa and Uganda. METHODS A checklist gu...

Journal: :Health economics, policy, and law 2007
Gillian Mulvale Julia Abelson Paula Goering

Like many jurisdictions, mental health policy-making in Ontario, Canada, has a long history of frustrated attempts to move from a hospital and physician-based tradition to a coordinated system with greater emphasis on community-based mental health care. This study examines policy legacies associated with the introduction of psychiatric hospitals in the 1850s and of public health insurance (medi...

Journal: :The journal of mental health policy and economics 2001
Olayinka O. Omigbodun

BACKGROUND: Although effective treatment modalities for mental health problems currently exist in Nigeria, they remain irrelevant to the 70% of Nigeria's 120 million people who have no access to modern mental health care services. The nation's Health Ministry has adopted mental health as the 9th component of Primary Health Care (PHC) but ten years later, very little has been done to put this po...

2015
Amit Makan Abebaw Fekadu Vaibhav Murhar Nagendra Luitel Tasneem Kathree Joshua Ssebunya Crick Lund

BACKGROUND The knowledge generated from evidence-based interventions in mental health systems research is seldom translated into policy and practice in low and middle-income countries (LMIC). Stakeholder analysis is a potentially useful tool in health policy and systems research to improve understanding of policy stakeholders and increase the likelihood of knowledge translation into policy and ...

Journal: :WHO South-East Asia journal of public health 2017
Neil Fernando Thirupathy Suveendran Chithramalee de Silva

In the past, mental health services in Sri Lanka were limited to tertiary-care institutions, resulting in a large treatment gap. Starting in 2000, significant efforts have been made to reconfigure service provision and to integrate mental health services with primary health care. This approach was supported by significant political commitment to establishing island-wide decentralized mental hea...

Journal: :BMC Public Health 2009
Anton CJ Lager Sven G Bremberg

BACKGROUND Mental health problems have become more common among young people over the last twenty years, especially in certain countries. The reasons for this have remained unclear. The hypothesis tested in this study is that national trends in young people's mental health are associated with national trends in young people's labour market. METHODS National secular changes in the proportion o...

Journal: :BMC health services research 2015
Francesca C Grace Carla S Meurk Brian W Head Wayne D Hall Georgia Carstensen Meredith G Harris Harvey A Whiteford

BACKGROUND Over the past two decades, mental health reform in Australia has received unprecedented government attention. This study explored how five policy levers (organisation, regulation, community education, finance and payment) were used by the Australian Federal Government to implement mental health reforms. METHODS Australian Government publications, including the four mental health pl...

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