Mental health policy adoption as a seminal event: A response to recent commentaries.

Gordon C Shen

doi:10.15171/ijhpm.2015.90

Abstract

Mental health policy adoption as a seminal event: A response to recent commentaries.

Highlights

Policy’s impact on outcome indicators such as morbidity and mortality take even longer to be realized
Politics and policy are intertwined, and there are certainly actors situated inside, as well as outside, each country who are engaged with mental health policy-making, but they were not addressed by my study
My global and historical account of the presence of mental health on national policy-making agendas is the result of harmonizing theory, quantitative methods, and different empirical contexts

Summary

Introduction

Policy’s impact on outcome indicators such as morbidity and mortality take even longer to be realized. I conceptualized national mental health policy adoption as an isolated event. Politics and policy are intertwined, and there are certainly actors situated inside, as well as outside, each country who are engaged with mental health policy-making, but they were not addressed by my study.

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