mental health policy

BACKGROUND The objective of this international comparative study is to describe and compare the mental health policies in seven… (More)

BACKGROUND Following the tenets of world polity and innovation diffusion theories, I focus on the coercive and mimetic forces… (More)

OBJECTIVE Although most donor and development agency attention is focused on communicable diseases in mainland Tanzania, the… (More)

OBJECTIVE This paper identifies the key barriers to mental health policy implementation in Ghana and suggests ways of overcoming… (More)

INTRODUCTION Mental health is increasingly acknowledged as a crucial public health issue in South Africa (SA). However, it is not… (More)

OBJECTIVE To identify key issues in the mental health policy development process in Cambodia that will contribute to an increased… (More)

BACKGROUND Since the 1978 Italian reform, an integrated network of community mental health services has been introduced. With few… (More)

The concept of the burden of disease, introduced and estimated for a broad range of diseases in the World Bank report of 1993… (More)

OBJECTIVE This paper describes the processes involved in policy development and implementation with examples of how this can be… (More)

Changes in the de facto system of mental health care in the last decade reflect organizational and entrepreneurial responsiveness… (More)