| Title : | Mental Health Policy and Practice Across Europe : the future direction of mental health care | | Material Type: | printed text | | Authors: | Martin Knapp, Editor ; David McDaid, Editor ; Mossialos Elias, Editor ; G.J. Thornicroft, Editor | | Publisher: | McGraw Hill /Open University Press (UK) | | Publication Date: | 2007 | | Pagination: | xxvii, 452 p. | | Size: | 24 cm | | ISBN (or other code): | 978-0-335-21467-9 | | General note: | Includes bibliographical referneces (p.438-440)
Includes indexes (p.[441]-452) | | Languages : | English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) | | Descriptors: | Mental health
Mental health services
| | Class number: | 362.2 | | Abstract: | Health targets have been proposed as a tool to improve the governance of health systems. Health targets express a commitment to achieve specified outputs in a defined time period, and enable monitoring of progress towards the achievement of broader goals and objectives. They may be quantitative or qualitative, and based on outcomes or processes. However, like any tool, they must be used appropriately or they could lead to unintended or undesirable consequences.
As governments strive to improve the performance of their health systems, it is timely to assess the experiences of those countries or regions that have employed targets. This book draws on a series of case studies written by experts from Catalonia (Spain), England (United Kingdom), Flanders (Belgium), France, Germany, Hungary and the Russian Federation. The book reviews the major technical, managerial and political challenges surrounding the definition and implementation of health targets. It concludes that they do offer scope to focus attention on agreed goals but, in order to realize their potential, they need to be based on evidence, accepted by those who must work to achieve them, be embedded in frameworks of mutual accountability, linked to appropriate incentive and/or sanction mechanisms and supported by an adequate intelligence infrastructure. | | Contents note: | Mental health policy and practice across Europe : an overview; The historical development of mental health services in Europe; Tackling social exlusion across Europe; Financing and funding mental health care services; The evidence base in mental health policy and practice; Developments in the treatment of mental disorders; Psychopharmaceuticals in Europe; A policy framework for the promotion of mental health and the prevention of mental disorders; Common mental health problems in primary care : policy goals and the evidence base; Reforms in community care : the balance between hospital and community-based mental health care; Addiction and alcohol use disorders; Housing and employment; Developing mental health policy : a human rights perspective; The user and survivor movement in Europe; The mental health care of asylum seekers and refugees; Carers and families of people with mental health problems; Mental health policy in former eastern bloc countries; Global perspective on mental health policy and service development issues : the WHO angle; | | Link for e-copy: | http://books.google.com/books?id=_KnuP8OwJbMC&printsec=frontcover&dq=97803352146 [...] | | Format of e-copy: | http:// | | Record link: | https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=14186 |
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