Knowing the unknown: a comparison of the clinical and demographic characteristics of patients requiring hospital admission both known and unknown to community mental health services

This paper summarizes the history of the development of Chinese mental health system; the current situation in the mental health field that China has to face in its effort to reform the system, including mental health burden, workforce and resources, as well as structural issues; the process of national mental health service reform, including how it was included into the national public health program, how it began as a training program and then became a treatment and intervention program, its unique training and capacity building model, and its outcomes and impacts; the barriers and challenges of the reform process; future suggestions for policy; and Chinese experiences as response to the international advocacy for the development of mental health.

In April 2003 the Alberta government integrated specialized mental health services, formerly organized independently, with the health regions, which are responsible for general health services. The objective of this article is to determine whether the transfer was associated with an increase or decrease in the share of resources in the region allocated to mental health care relative to total spending for health care. The measure of the share for mental health care is the total costs for mental health care resources as a percentage of total health care spending. Resources and spending examined were those that were actually or potentially under the regions' control. Annual costs for mental health services in the province were obtained for a seven-year period (fiscal year [FY] 2000 through FY 2006) from provincial utilization records for all residents in the province. Unit costs were assigned to each visit. The trend in the share measure was plotted for each year. The share for mental health care increased overall from FY 2000 (7.6%) to FY 2003 (8.2%), but returned to pre-FY 2003 levels in the three years after the transfer (7.6%). Despite concerns expressed before the transfer by federal and provincial reports over the level of expenditures devoted to mental health care, the integration of mental health services with other health services did not result in an increase of the share for mental health care.

Lessons learned in developing community mental health care in Australasia and the South Pacific

Mental health services and public mental health: challenges and opportunities.

Project Liberty: New York's Crisis Counseling Program Created in the Aftermath of September 11, 2001

Health service use by community-dwelling patients with heart failure in northwest London, 2015–18: a retrospective cohort analysis

Opportunities in mental health services research.

Toward Successful Postbooking Diversion: What Are the Next Steps?

This paper summarizes the findings for the European Region of the WPA Task Force on Steps, Obstacles and Mistakes to Avoid in the Implementation of Community Mental Health Care. The article presents a description of the region, an overview of mental health policies and legislation, a summary of relevant research in the region, a precis of community mental health services, a discussion of the key lessons learned, and some recommendations for the future.

Helping smokers quit in secondary-care services

Initiation and Use of Public Mental Health Services by Persons With Severe Mental Illness and Limited English Proficiency

Physical coercion, perceived pressures and procedural justice in the involuntary admission and future engagement with mental health services

Mental health care among marginalized populations in the United States

BackgroundRelapse of illness frequently happens in people with Severe Mental Illness (SMI).1 The consequences include increased healthcare costs and further strains on social support systems.2 The newly established Clinical Nurse...

Issues in Medicaid Policy and System Transformation: Recommendations From the President's Commission