scholarly journals Needs Assessment Framework for Mental Health Policy in Treating Persons With Serious Mental Illness in Azerbaijan

2019 ◽  
Vol 70 (5) ◽  
pp. 432-435
Author(s):  
Jamila Ismayilova ◽  
Miguel Xavier ◽  
Kerim M. Munir
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Needs Assessment ◽  
Serious Mental Illness ◽  
Mental Health Policy ◽  
Assessment Framework

Homelessness and Mental Health Policy

1989 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Kalifon
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Mental Health Policy ◽  
Homeless Population ◽  
Mental Patients

Homelessness appears to be on the rise and is spreading outside the boundaries of traditional "skid rows." As vagrants and symptomatic mental patients spill into downtowns and commercial areas, the issue has become visible and pressing. Increasing attention has been paid in recent years to the role of mental illness as a cause or contributing element in the growing homeless population.

scholarly journals Crime and punishment: Pakistan's legal failure to account for mental illness

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Romesa Qaiser Khan ◽  
Abdul Moiz Khan
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
Mental Health Policy ◽  
Crime And Punishment ◽  
Religious Background ◽  
Sensitive Issues

The Mental Health Ordinance 2001 was the last comprehensive legislation on mental health policy in Pakistan, replacing the Lunacy Act 1912. Since then, most of the amendments to the act have only delineated the jurisdiction of the provincial governments. Failure to account for mental illness in Pakistan brings with it unique challenges, such as the criminalisation of suicide and exploitation of blasphemy laws. There is a need for organised efforts to promote awareness of mental illness, amend the obsolete legislation in conformity with the scientific evidence, implement mental health policy effectively and deal with sensitive issues that have a strong sociocultural or religious background.

Policy challenges

2018 ◽  
pp. 131-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felicia A. Huppert ◽  
Kai Ruggeri
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Mental Health Policy ◽  
Public Mental Health ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Diverse Populations ◽  
Widespread Agreement ◽  
Uniform Definition ◽  
Mental Well Being

Taking a whole-population perspective, the chapter argues that improved well-being is the most important outcome of policy. Despite growing awareness of its importance, accepting the primacy of well-being has been a challenge within public mental health because there has been no uniform definition or measure, nor consensus on how to apply such a subjective concept across diverse populations. Confusion created by using terms such as happiness, or the continuing tendency to equate mental well-being with lack of mental illness, have created barriers to gaining widespread agreement on the importance of well-being in policy. In this chapter, historical approaches to defining well-being, issues of measurement, and evidence underpinning well-being interventions are explored. The chapter closes with a proposal on how best to consider well-being as an outcome, making use of the evidence in driving public mental health policy.

Defining ‘Mental Illness’ In Mental Health Policy

2006 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 737-749 ◽  
Author(s):  
Howard H. Goldman ◽  
Gerald N. Grob
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Mental Health Policy

scholarly journals Intersectoral policy for severe and persistent mental illness: review of approaches in a sample of high-income countries

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Diminic ◽  
G. Carstensen ◽  
M. G. Harris ◽  
N. Reavley ◽  
J. Pirkis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Web Search ◽  
Mental Health Policy ◽  
Monitoring And Evaluation ◽  
Aged Care ◽  
Service Planning ◽  
Intersectoral Collaboration ◽  
Persistent Mental Illness

BackgroundIt is increasingly recognised that intersectoral linkages between mental health and other health and support sectors are essential for providing effective care for individuals with severe and persistent mental illness. The extent to which intersectoral collaboration and approaches to achieve it are detailed in mental health policy has not yet been systematically examined.MethodsThirty-eight mental health policy documents from 22 jurisdictions in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Canada were identified via a web search. Information was extracted and synthesised on: the extent to which intersectoral collaboration was an objective or guiding principle of policy; the sectors acknowledged as targets for collaboration; and the characteristics of detailed intersectoral collaboration efforts.ResultsRecurring themes in objectives/guiding principles included a whole of government approach, coordination and integration of services, and increased social and economic participation. All jurisdictions acknowledged the importance of intersectoral collaboration, particularly with employment, education, housing, community, criminal justice, drug and alcohol, physical health, Indigenous, disability, emergency and aged care services. However, the level of detail provided varied widely. Where detailed strategies were described, the most common linkage mechanisms were joint service planning through intersectoral coordinating committees or liaison workers, interagency agreements, staff training and joint service provision.ConclusionsSectors and mechanisms identified for collaboration were largely consistent across jurisdictions. Little information was provided about strategies for accountability, resourcing, monitoring and evaluation of intersectoral collaboration initiatives, highlighting an area for further improvement. Examples of collaboration detailed in the policies provide a useful resource for other countries.

The importance of service level measures for mental health policy

1997 ◽  
Vol 6 (S1) ◽  
pp. 229-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Jenkins ◽  
Gyles Glover
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Community Mental Health ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Mission Statement ◽  
Mental Health Policy ◽  
Community Mental Health Team ◽  
Mental Health Team ◽  
Health Team

The policy of any organisation is a setting out of the purposes for which it exists - its mission statement. Governments spend money on mental health services and therefore need a coherent mission statement for the use and goals to which that money is put. Moreover, the consequences of mental illness pervade all aspects of a nation's existence. Therefore a mission statement is needed to tackle mental illness and its consequences, not only by developing and using specialist mental health services to best effect, but also by using other relevant organisations as appropriate.Mental health policy is formulated at all levels from the community mental health team to the national government and thence to the World Health Organisation and the United Nations. Indeed national and international mental health policies have generally been led by local innovative best clinical practice. At local level, the policy of a community mental health team will identify the types of patients to which it seeks to provide a service, the channels through which referrals will be accepted, the type and nature of assessment and decision making about consequent interventions which will be used and a range of quality standards within which it will seek to operate. It may set out a set of desired goals in terms of the improvement in the health status of clients and the degree of consumer satisfaction it seeks to achieve. Some adverse consequences may be set out. For example, it may seek to minimise readmissions to hospital within a specified period of time or the frequency of violent or self-destructive behaviour on behalf of its clients.

Psychiatric disorder and individual violence: Evidence and perceptions

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan Busfield
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Psychiatric Disorder ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Mental Health Policy ◽  
Violent Behaviour ◽  
Close Link ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter explores the links commonly made between psychiatric disorder and individual violence. To this end it: first, looks at the evidence concerning the relationship between psychiatric disorder and violent behaviour, examining a range of empirical data, including the issue of whether it is possible to predict violence in those with mental illness; second, it draws on a range of ideas to explore how we can best understand the continuing, often exaggerated, assumptions of a close link between the two; and third and finally, it considers the implications of both the empirical data and the explanatory ideas for mental health policy.

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