From Mental Illness to Mental Health: Improving Access to Care

Improving access to mental health care for children: the Massachusetts Child Psychiatry Access Project.

BACKGROUND Inadequate access to care for mentally ill children and their families is a persistent problem in the United States. Although promotion of pediatric primary care clinicians (PCCs) in detection, management, and coordination of child mental health care is a strategy for improving access, limitations in training, time, and specialist availability represent substantial barriers. The Mass...

Improving access to City and Hackney adult mental health services

City and Hackney Adult Mental Health Referral and Assessment Service (CHAMHRAS) is the single point of entry for all mental health referrals to secondary services, with the exception of perinatal referrals, in the City and Hackney region of London, UK. CHAMHRAS was established in 2013 with the objective of providing a one-stop point of referral which screens urgent and non-urgent referrals of a...

Mental Health or Mental Illness

re^ reader daring enough to venture beyond the glaring cover will find his a?^s in this concise treatise on Mental Health and Illness. Jhe author feels strongly that: the problem of mental illness and abnormal functioning cannot be solved unless more people, having learned about the problem, will take an active Part instead of leaving the whole situation in the hands of psychiatrists". Later he...

Mental Health—Or Mental Illness?

Access to general health care services by a New Zealand population with serious mental illness.

INTRODUCTION Literature suggests that good quality health care access can have a positive impact on the health of people with serious mental illness (SMI), but literature relating to patterns of access by this group is equivocal. AIM This study was designed to explore health care access patterns in a group of people with SMI and to compare them with a general New Zealand population group, in ...