International Journal of Mental Health Systems

Participation in mental healthcare: a qualitative meta-synthesis

"This meta-synthesis demonstrates that service user participation in mental healthcare remains a policy aspiration, which generally has not been translated into clinical practice. The continued lack of impact on policy on the delivery of mental healthcare suggests that change may have to be community driven. Systemic service user advocacy groups could contribute critically to promoting authentic service user participation in the co-production of mental health services."

Interventions to increase use of services; Mental Health Awareness in Nigeria

"Mental health services in Nigeria consists mainly of large government psychiatric hospitals and there are very few mental health professionals to serve the large population of the country. However, more recently, community mental health services, which have been shown to improve access to care and clinical outcomes are beginning to develop in some locations.... Therefore interventions to increase service use are an essential component of health system. "

Content type: Research
| 14 August 2018

Personal attributes and competencies required by community health workers for a role in integrated mental health care for perinatal depression: voices of primary health care stakeholders from Surabaya, Indonesia

Authors: Endang R. Surjaningrum, Anthony F. Jorm, Harry Minas and Ritsuko Kakuma
Content type: Research
| 10 August 2018

Facilitating people living with severe and persistent mental illness to transition from prison to community: a qualitative exploration of staff experiences

Authors: Nicola Hancock, Jennifer Smith-Merry and Kirsty Mckenzie
Content type: Research
| 1 August 2018

Building back better? Taking stock of the post-earthquake mental health and psychosocial response in Nepal

Authors: Liana E. Chase, Kedar Marahatta, Kripa Sidgel, Sujan Shrestha, Kamal Gautam, Nagendra P. Luitel, Bhogendra Raj Dotel and Reuben Samuel
Content type: Debate
| 31 July 2018

Forty years without mental hospitals in Italy

Authors: Corrado Barbui, Davide Papola and Benedetto Saraceno
Content type: Research
| 28 July 2018

Postpartum depressive symptoms in the context of high social adversity and reproductive health threats: a population-based study

Authors: Telake Azale, Abebaw Fekadu and Charlotte Hanlon

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Content type: Debate
| 17 September 2008

Hope, despair and transformation: Climate change and the promotion of mental health and wellbeing

Authors: Jessica G Fritze, Grant A Blashki, Susie Burke and John Wiseman
Content type: Review
| 5 January 2015

Existing public health surveillance systems for mental health in China

Authors: Wei Zhou and Shuiyuan Xiao
Content type: Review
| 13 April 2008

Reducing stigma and discrimination: Candidate interventions

Authors: Graham Thornicroft, Elaine Brohan, Aliya Kassam and Elanor Lewis-Holmes
Content type: Research
| 4 September 2007

Relation between depression and sociodemographic factors

Authors: Noori Akhtar-Danesh and Janet Landeen
Content type: Case study
| 25 January 2011

Three models of community mental health services In low-income countries

Authors: Alex Cohen, Julian Eaton, Birgit Radtke, Christina George, Bro Victor Manuel, Mary De Silva and Vikram Patel

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International Journal of Mental Health Systems (IJMHS) publishes the latest mental health research and health systems research, reviews, case studies and guidelines, policy, debates, technical and methodological advances, and lessons from the field that will advance and shape the emerging discipline of global mental health.

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Participation in mental healthcare: a qualitative meta-synthesis

Norman J. Stomski and Paul Morrison

International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2017 11:67

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Global Mental Health and Development
Edited by: Prof Harry Minas
Collection published: 7 July 2014
Updated: 10 March 2015

International Journal of Mental Health Systems

Participation in mental healthcare: a qualitative meta-synthesis

Interventions to increase use of services; Mental Health Awareness in Nigeria

Articles

Personal attributes and competencies required by community health workers for a role in integrated mental health care for perinatal depression: voices of primary health care stakeholders from Surabaya, Indonesia

Facilitating people living with severe and persistent mental illness to transition from prison to community: a qualitative exploration of staff experiences

Building back better? Taking stock of the post-earthquake mental health and psychosocial response in Nepal

Forty years without mental hospitals in Italy

Postpartum depressive symptoms in the context of high social adversity and reproductive health threats: a population-based study

Hope, despair and transformation: Climate change and the promotion of mental health and wellbeing

Existing public health surveillance systems for mental health in China

Reducing stigma and discrimination: Candidate interventions

Relation between depression and sociodemographic factors

Three models of community mental health services In low-income countries

Aims and scope

Latest Review

Article collection

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