WHO guidance on mental health policy and strategic action plans This Guidance provides a framework for strengthening governance, service delivery, workforce capacity and treatment, care and support. It highlights mental health’s connection to social and structural determinants, offering actionable strategies to address these, combat stigma and discrimination, and expand access to care. It ...
The VA/DOD provides clinical practice guidelines on a variety of major medical health issues, but also guidelines addressing mental health topics. They also provide summaries, pocket guides and patient/family tools. ... Moore Equity in Mental Health 5K; Policy & Practice Insights Series; Social Determinants of Mental Health Town Hall Series; Back
The report explains key trends in mental health policy and offers lessons from NAMI State Organization leaders who played an important role in shaping some of these policies. NAMI State Legislation Report: Trends in State Mental Health Policy (2022) Many significant mental health policy decisions are made at the state-level.
The topic of each module represents a core aspect of mental health. Mental Health Policy, Plans and Programmes is a central module, providing detailed information about the process of developing policy and implementing it through plans and programmes. Following a reading of this module, countries may wish to focus on specific aspects of mental ...
The National Mental Health and Substance Use Policy Laboratory (Policy Lab) leads the equitable coordination, analysis, development, and implementation of national policy to promote mental health, prevent substance misuse and addiction, provide treatment and support recovery.
To successfully achieve such a system-wide transformation will require supporting federal policies that invest in sustainable high-quality services. To support these efforts we provide a mixed-method study of all federal mental health legislation over the last three decades. Results indicate that mental and behavioral health policies have grown.
Introduction, purpose and use of the guidance explores key mental health policy considerations, addressing challenges and the urgent need for reform to tackle social and structural determinants. It emphasizes the need to align with international human rights frameworks, highlighting essential factors and proposing new directions for equitable ...
The National Guidance was updated to reflect the U.S. transition to the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline in 2022 and other progress and emerging needs related to behavioral health crisis care, and provides a framework for transforming behavioral health crisis care systems in communities throughout the United States, at a time when the U.S. continues to face record high rates of suicide and overdose.
This Guidance on mental health policy and strategic action plans provides countries with a comprehensive pathway to mental health policy reform. This is in line with an increasing consensus on the importance of embracing rights-based, person-centered, and recovery-oriented approaches that emphasize autonomy and
Disclaimer: This document/rubric is in use by MHA as of March 4, 2021 to help us evaluate through an equity lens the development of and our potential support for public policy initiatives affecting behavioral health.We will make revisions as we gain deeper insights. Future versions will be dated and supersede earlier ones. For each policy issue or proposal considered or developed by Mental ...
Policies help inform practice. Below are links to compilations of AAP policies written by the AAP committees, sections, and councils that have an emphasis on healthy mental development. Committee on Adolescence; Committee on Pediatric Emergency Medicine; Committee on Psychosocial Aspects of Child and Family Health; Committee on Substance Use ...
Access: The ability for individuals to obtain timely and affordable mental health care and resources. This includes ensuring that everyone can receive the treatment they need and achieve positive outcomes. Advocacy: Actions taken to support, promote, or protect mental health-friendly policies. Actions are targeted toward individuals, groups ...
The report explains key trends in mental health policy and offers lessons from NAMI State Organization leaders who played important roles in shaping some of these policies. The report’s analysis is divided into three main sections based on the topic area pillars of the NAMI 2020-2025 Strategic Plan: people should get help early, get the best ...
Research and Evaluation for Health Policy: HHS will merge the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to create the Office of Strategy to enhance research that informs the Secretary’s policies and improves the effectiveness of federal health programs.
Momentum is growing globally for rights-based, person-centered, and recovery-oriented mental health policies and action plans, ensuring equitable access to quality services within Universal Health Coverage (UHC). This publication provides a clear framework for strengthening leadership, governance, service delivery, and workforce capacity.
This issue brief presents KFF WHS data on access to mental health services among women and men ages 18 to 64, and it also takes a closer look at mental health coverage among women.
