Reviewing the Mental Health Act: delivering evidence-informed policy

An Assessment of National Maternal and Child Health Policy-Makers’ Knowledge and Capacity for Evidence-Informed Policy-Making in Nigeria

Background There is increasing interest globally in the use of more rigorous processes to ensure that maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) care recommendations are informed by the best available research evidence use. The purpose of this study was to engage Nigerian MNCH policy-makers and other stakeholders to consider issues around research to policy and practice interface and to assess ...

Mental handicap and the mental health act.

the role of knowledge brokers in promoting evidence informed health policy making

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Implementing the Mental Health Act

Residential Accommodation and Day Centres The proposals put forward for hostels vary considerably : the majority see the need for something extra and some plan special hostels for the aged and mentally infirm; some for patients discharged from mental hospitals; some use the hostels of voluntary organisations, some their own. Little is said about the need to collaborate with mental hospitals but...

The Mental Health Act, 1959

a series of articles in The Hospital, written during 1959-60, and made available in book form in response to many requests received. It does not attempt to be a complete and comprehensive guide to the Act; the full text of every section and of every Regulation is not reproduced, reproductions of the Circulars are not included. It is intended to be read in conjunction with the Act itself, but as...