Aims The Advancing Mental Health Equality Collaborative is an innovative 3-year quality improvement programme led by the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ National Collaborating Centre for (NCCMH). collaborative was launched in July 2021 and involves 18 organisations across UK who, with support from NCCMH, are working to understand needs their population identify communities at risk experiencing ...

People with serious mental illness have higher morbidity and mortality rates of chronic diseases than the general population. This discussion paper explores the complex reasons for these disparities in health, such as limitations of health services, the effects of having a serious mental illness, health behaviours and the effects of psychotropic medication. Physical health can be enhanced by im...

In this article, three scholars jointly investigate questions of Western colonization and mental health. While their areas interest experience vary, the authors discuss oppression as a common thread connecting ideas about health its medicalization. line with Toyosaki et al. (2009), researchers did community autoethnography, performing written dialogue dynamic research method. Using sequential m...

OBJECTIVE Breakfast consumption has been associated with better mental health in adulthood, but the relationship between breakfast and mental health in adolescence is less well known. The aims of the present study were to evaluate breakfast quality in a cohort of adolescents and to investigate associations with mental health. DESIGN Cross-sectional population-based study. Breakfast quality wa...

Benchmarking has been advocated by the Department of Health as a tool of clinical governance. The essence of benchmarking is learning from the best practice of others. Its ability to compare services and outcomes of care can facilitate change, ensuring quality control and continuous service improvement. The concept is in its infancy in the National Health Service despite its exceptionally rapid...

BACKGROUND An increased awareness of the health benefits of walking has emerged with the development and refinement of accelerometer equipment. Evidence is beginning to highlight the value of promoting walking, particularly focusing on the Japanese mark of obtaining 10,000 steps per day. Workplace based step challenges have become popular to engage large cohorts in increasing their daily physic...

correspondence: Norman Sartorius, M.D., M.A., D.P.M., Ph.D., FRC. Psych. Mailing address: President Association for the Improvement of Mental Health Programmes, 14 chemin Colladon Geneva, Switzerland. Email: [email protected] It was good news to hear that the National Health and Family Planning Commission produced China’s National Mental Health Plan 2015-2020 having developed it in ...

This paper presents initial findings of a new model of care that encourages the rehabilitation of relationships between carers, families and consumers of mental health services. Many models of care have been implemented to enable service providers to achieve better outcomes for the consumer. However, many carers continue to feel pathologised by the system that cares for their family member. Imp...

BACKGROUND The evaluation and management of stress are important for the prevention of both depression and cardiovascular disease. In addition, the maintenance of the oral condition of the elderly is essential to enable them to stay healthy, especially to prevent aspiration pneumonia and improve mental health in an aging society. Therefore, we examined the efficacy of singing on the oral condit...

BACKGROUND People with morbid obesity (body mass index ≥40) may experience changes in their health after participating in a tailored patient education course. The aims of this study were to assess the changes in physical and mental health in persons with morbid obesity during the 2 years following an educational course and to explore possible socio-demographic, treatment, and personal predictor...