scholarly journals Whereto mental health reform in Australia: is anyone listening to our independent auditors?

2015 ◽  
Vol 202 (4) ◽  
pp. 172-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen M Griffiths ◽  
John Mendoza ◽  
Bradley Carron‐Arthur
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Reform ◽  
Mental Health Reform ◽  
Independent Auditors

“Not Worth Powder and Shot”

1990 ◽  
Vol 156 (2) ◽  
pp. 180-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
T.-W. Harding
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Reform ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Medical Officer ◽  
Ministry Of Health ◽  
Administrative Reforms ◽  
Mental Health Reform ◽  
Psychiatric Establishment

Dr Montagu Lomax worked as an assistant medical officer at Prestwich Asylum for two years from 1917. His book,The Experiences of an Asylum Doctor,was published in 1921. He was condemned by the psychiatric establishment for his description of inhuman, custodial, and antitherapeutic conditions. Access to previously confidential official papers, to the archives of Prestwich Hospital, and to Professor George Robertson's correspondence has permitted a reconstruction of the Lomax affair. Lomax was a dedicated and sincere clinician. Senior Ministry of Health officials regarded Lomax's book as “temperate”, “well founded”, and an opportunity to secure public support for long needed legal and administrative reforms. Through his book, Lomax made a lasting contribution to the cause of mental health reform.

scholarly journals Mental health reforms in the Czech Republic

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ondrej Pec
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Health Reform ◽  
Mental Healthcare ◽  
Rehabilitation Services ◽  
Community Based ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Mental Health Reform ◽  
Mental Health Reforms ◽  
Community Based Services

This paper describes the history and current provision of mental healthcare in the Czech Republic. After the political changes in 1989, there was an expansion of out-patient care and several non-governmental organisations began to provide social rehabilitation services, but the main focus of care still rested on mental hospitals. In recent years, mental health reform has been in progress, which has involved expanding community-based services and psychiatric wards of general hospitals, simultaneously with educational and destigmatisation programmes.

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