tailieunhanh - Mental Health Policy and Service Guidance Package: THE MENTAL HEALTH CONTEXT

The package consists of a series of interrelated user-friendly modules that are designed to address the wide variety of needs and priorities in policy development and service planning. The topic of each module represents a core aspect of mental health. The starting point is the module entitled The Mental Health Context, which outlines the global context of mental health and summarizes the content of all the modules. This module should give readers an understanding of the global context of mental health, and should enable them to select specific modules that will be useful to them in their own situations. Mental Health Policy, Plans and Programmes is a. | Mental Health Policy and Service Guidance Package E MENTAL HEALTH CONTEXT must take into account recent developments in the understanding treatment and care of people with mental disorders current health reforms and government policies in other sectors. Efforts to improve mental health World Health Organization 2003 Mental Health Policy and Service Guidance Package THE MENTAL HEALTH CONTEXT World Health Organization 2003 WHO Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Mental health context. Mental health policy and service guidance package 1. Mental health services - organization and administration 2. Mental health services - standards 3. Mental disorders - therapy 4. Public policy 5. Cost of illness 6. Guidelines I. World Health Organization II. Series. ISBN 92 4 154594 1 NLM classification WM 30 Technical information concerning this publication can be obtained from Dr Michelle Funk Mental Health Policy and Service Development Team Department of Mental Health and Substance Dependence Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health Cluster World Health Organization CH-1211 Geneva 27 Switzerland Tel 41 22 791 3855 Fax 41 22 791 4160 E-mail funkm@ World Health Organization 2003 All rights reserved. Publications of the World Health Organization can be obtained from Marketing and Dissemination World Health Organization 20 Avenue Appia 1211 Geneva 27 Switzerland tel 41 22 791 2476 fax 41 22 791 4857 email bookorders@ . Requests for permission to reproduce or translate WHO publications - whether for sale or for noncommercial distribution - should be addressed to Publications at the above address fax 41 22 791 4806 email permissions@ . The designations employed and the presentation of the material in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the World Health Organization concerning the legal status of any country territory city or area or of its authorities or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or .