The attitude of the public toward mental illness and toward psychiatric patients raises a serious and sensitive issue that indirectly affects the development of community mental health services. Most citizens feel that there is an association between mental illness and dangerous or violent behavior. Studies undertaken among police personnel in the 1970s demonstrated that their attitudes were si...

BACKGROUND Coordinated, interdisciplinary services, supported by self-management underpin effective management for chronic low back pain (CLBP). However, a combination of system, provider and consumer-based barriers exist which limit the implementation of such models into practice, particularly in rural areas where unique access issues exist. In order to improve health service delivery for cons...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the Vietnamese Dementia talking-book was to address low health literacy in older people of Vietnamese background living with dementia through the provision of an online resource to help individuals, their families and carers better understand and manage this condition and provide information about available dementia services. DESIGN This qualitative study used codesign an...

As far back as the 14th Century, Egypt had already developed mental health care in a community-based sense Kalaoon Hospital Cairo, 600 years before similar institutions were founded across globe.
 By 2001, an Egyptian-Finnish bilateral comprehensive reform program was incorporated. A few later, 2007, Minister of Health and Population initiated proper appraisal services Egypt, which aimed a...

This article presents a defined classification of non-government community mental health services designed for reporting by the non-government sector. Initial classification involved review of the relevant literature, advisory committee consultation and content analysis of the Department of Health, Western Australia's service specifications and service contracts. A proposed classification was e...