quality in delivery of mental health services

... about difficult things during this period User involvement User involvement was discussed both in terms of involvement in the planning and delivery of services and in terms of direct involvement or ... Reductions in disproportionate inpatient admissions Compulsory detention Use of seclusion Interpretation and investigation of violent incidents Monitoring and investigating death in mental health services ... white population in rates of mental ill health and equality of service in terms of experience and outcomes has figured in government policy since Labour took office in 1997 The death of an African-Caribbean...

Ngày tải lên: 24/02/2014, 18:20

... because of mental problems?” Response choices included “yes” and “no” (coded as = used services, = not used services) We also asked about the use of different types of mental health services by asking: ... depression, using a twelve month prevalence definition Of those 381 (68%) were women and 173 (32%) men 221 (39.6%) of them had used health services during the last 12 months because of mental health ... “During the last 12 months, did you seek help from any of the following service institutions in respect of a mental health problem” and gave respondents 12 alternatives Sixteen statements exploring...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22

... skills Working with traumatised refugees and asylum -seekers User involvement in mental health worker training Involving users in designing inpatient environments Provision of IT training to service ... field of mental health (in terms of publication of scientific papers and production of patents related to mental health) have the best mental health infrastructure and are also ranked first in science ... offer insights about health and social care more broadly, and so are not limited to mental health Taking both of these points into consideration, the findings will be discussed now in terms of...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 11:20

... CONTEXT OF REPRODUTIVE HEALTH SERVICES A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR ASSESSING QUALITY IN REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SERVICES Stages of the Health Care Continuum The Components of Quality PUTTING THE FRAMEWORK ... quarter of clinics maintaining records had incomplete information In addition, less than one-half of the clinics (43%) reported having a system of follow-up for dropouts In Tunisia, interviews ... elements of quality of care: technical competence and the women-relationship The findings indicate a need for training in health education amongst health providers, particularly midwives Training...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 15:20

... Vehicle running expenses Cleaning materials & linen Printing and stationary Motor vehicle insurances Telephone & postage Administration including security Laundry including house keeping X-ray/diagnostic ... Government is undertaking a number of health sector reforms with far reaching implications for financing health services The National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) is reviewing its payments to providers ... and improve financial sustainability of these services In addition, this information will be used in discussions with donors regarding their level of support for reproductive health services at...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 16:20

... different definitions of male involvement in PMTCT are used in different studies resulting in difficulties when comparing data between these studies Determining a consensus definition of male involvement ... Republic of Congo Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA Kinshasa School of Public Health, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of ... The second screening round of the remaining papers was conducted using the abstracts In the final round, the remaining publications were assessed using the full texts The following criteria were...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 12:20

... contributions of different categories of health workers and the role of health workers relative to other health system inputs in increasing utilization of essential services, particularly in developing ... areas of the country in 2002 [53] Community health workers, who are community members with basic health training and varying levels of responsibility, may also be involved in providing some of the ... inputs play an important role in increasing coverage of health services, and therefore may be responsible for the lack of association between health care workers and essential services Some of...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... Control in the Municipality Health, Health, Editor 2003, Instructions 19 Health Mo: Care, Health, Editor 1997, Directive 20 Health Mo: Maintenance and Improvement of Health Nursing in the Municipalities, ... while managers in the municipal health service in Norway have often undergone training in how they must implement PA, employees have not or have very rarely had any training in PA (15% of the respondents ... to why working in the municipal health service is still largely a female profession [12,25] Researchers point out that a larger proportion of women Page of 12 in various nursing professions have...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... developing partnership to train clinical staff to deliver EBP • SMHA funding for consumer training and joint teaching to professionals and consumers for EBP • Implementing shadowing training program ... mental health systems, nationally [14] or within particular states [15-19] Relatively few authors have examined innovations in mental health, including the implementation of EBPs, within governmental ... and NRI researchers in consultation with various experts in the field of mental health, including consumers Protocols were informed by research in fields such as diffusion of innovations, implementation,...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:22

... explained over 40% of variation in intention Interventions around clarifying and revising team roles may offer promising means of http://www.implementationscience.com/content/2/1/31 changing intention, ... improving professional practice A considerable body of literature suggests that a range of interventions (e.g., reminder systems, interactive education) can be effective in changing professional ... evaluated in other settings and they explain behaviour in terms of factors amenable to change (e.g., beliefs, perceived external constraints) There were economies of measurement inherent in using both...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:22

... Mental Health Association, drawing together interested parties in supporting mental health in the country In recognition of the burden of mental disorders in Ghana and the relative paucity of financial ... Mental Health Care' (commonly known as the MI Principles) [6] In response to the lack of progress in meeting the minimum standards enshrined in these principles, the Institute of Psychiatry in ... chaining, beating, cutting of the skin, acid burning or starvation ("fasting") in the treatment of the mentally ill and 'serve a purpose as a means of containment' The scarcity and expense of...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 14:21

... (median mental health score) Effect of a 10-point deterioration in general health score when mental health score = 84 (75th percentile mental health score; good mental health) Effect of a 10-point ... effect of the mental health score varies with general health and the effect of the general health score varies with mental health To illustrate the form of the interaction, the effect of increasing ... likelihood of receiving mental health care Among those with relatively good general health status, worsening mental health was associated with an increased likelihood of receiving mental health care,...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22

... explained over 40% of variation in intention Interventions around clarifying and revising team roles may offer promising means of http://www.implementationscience.com/content/2/1/31 changing intention, ... improving professional practice A considerable body of literature suggests that a range of interventions (e.g., reminder systems, interactive education) can be effective in changing professional ... evaluated in other settings and they explain behaviour in terms of factors amenable to change (e.g., beliefs, perceived external constraints) There were economies of measurement inherent in using both...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:20

... in this study The clinics arranged standard Page of 12 training in the use of HoNOSCA for their clinicians before and during the data collection period The clinicians at five of the seven clinics ... TRF explained 8% of the variance in the total (all ages) group Discussion In this study, we compared the total score and nine of the 13 scales of the clinician-rated HoNOSCA in routine clinical ... relevant scales or combinations of items in the ASEBA The general finding was that mental health rated by clinicians using the HoNOSCA correlated, as expected, with the mental health rated by parents,...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:21

... Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctorate in Clinical Psychology Institute of Health and Wellbeing College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences University of ... traumatic brain injury in refugees and asylumseekers attending mental health services – a preliminary study Zara Christie1 Address for Correspondence: Mental Health and Wellbeing University of Glasgow ... Gunatilake SB 2002 Mini -Mental State Examination in Sinhalese: a sensitive test to screen for dementia in Sri Lanka Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 17: 134-139 Folstein MF 1998 Mini -mental and son Int J Geriatr...

Ngày tải lên: 22/12/2014, 16:52

... even mental Again, these prefigure notions of psychosis within a professional discourse Users of mental health services rejecting psychiatric notions of mental illness have often opted instead ... role in identifying and explaining criminal conduct Currently, in British law the notion of mental disorder’ includes four separate conditions: mental illness’, mental impairment’, ‘severe mental ... time of writing, the British government has offered a single definition of mental disorder in its Draft Mental Health Bill (Department of Health 2004), which might displace the descriptions of four...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 02:20

... treating professional who is involuntarily compelled to participate in a legal proceeding involving a client or former client by providing records or testimony Jerry is the kind of mental health ... mental health services, or other youth service agencies The intake officer considers a number of factors in deciding whether informal proceedings are appropriate, including the seriousness of the alleged ... caring mental health services is increasing every day It has been our goal to assist the mental health community in a small way with the good work that it does We want to help keep mental health...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 02:20

... the book, beginning with the explicit discussion of financing and parity and continuing in chapters on delivering services to various populations and in various settings, including in primary care ... (KDH), and provide mental health services directly in a variety of clinical settings (KDH) All of the editors have worked with mental health professionals and mental health services researchers ... variety of key issues related to the organization, financing, and delivery of mental health services (see Chapters 1–5 in this volume) Specifically, this text examines the delivery of mental health services...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 02:20

... top-selling botanical product To address increasing American interest in St John’s wort, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) conducted a clini­ cal trial to determine the effectiveness of the ... pleasurable, including sex • Fatigue and decreased energy • Difficulty concentrating, remembering details and making decisions • Insomnia, waking up during the night, or excessive sleeping • Overeating, ... • • • • • • fluoxetine (Prozac) citalopram(Celexa) sertraline (Zoloft) paroxetine (Paxil) escitalopram (Lexapro) fluvoxamine (Luvox) Serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs) are...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 12:20

... Source: Virginia Department of Health Division of Health Statistics compiled by the Office of Family Health Services, Division of Women’s and Infants’ Health, 2004-08 36 Pregnancy planning and intention ... the Office of Environmental Health The Division of Dental Health s community water fluoridation program has a strong working relationship with the Office of Drinking Water Partnerships within ... of the Chief Medical Examiner Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Office of Minority Health and Public Health Food Programs Policy Division of Child and Adolescent Health Peninsula Health...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 05:20