Smoking bans in mental health hospitals in Japan: barriers to implementation

Smoking bans in mental health hospitals in Japan: barriers to implementation

BACKGROUND A number of studies have reported that smoking rates are higher and smoking cessation rates are lower in patients with mental disorders than in the general population. Despite the harmful effects of smoking, implementing total smoking bans in mental health hospitals is difficult. We investigate the status of smoking bans and the barriers to the implementation of total smoking bans in...

Barriers to the Implementation of a Referral System in Hospitals in the Health Reform Plan: Shafa Hospital in Kerman

 Barriers to the Implementation of a Referral System in Hospitals in the Health Reform Plan: Shafa Hospital in Kerman Aidin Aryankhesal 1, 2, Farzaneh Mahmoudi Meymand 3 * 1Department of Health Services Management, School of Management and Medical Information,  Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2Health Management and Economics Research Center, Iran University of Medical Scien...

Mental health services in Japan.

From mental health policy development in Ghana to implementation: what are the barriers?

OBJECTIVE This paper identifies the key barriers to mental health policy implementation in Ghana and suggests ways of overcoming them. METHOD The study used both quantitative and qualitative methods. Quantitatively, the WHO Mental Health Policy and Plan Checklist and the WHO Mental Health Legislation Checklist were employed to analyse the content of mental health policy, plans and legislation...

Barriers to Health Care among the Elderly in Japan

Japan is undergoing a set of health care reforms aimed at cutting rising health care costs and increasing the efficiency of health care delivery. This empirical study used a large-scale community survey on 15,302 elderly people 65 years and older (56.0% women) conducted in seven municipalities in 2006, to reveal clear-cut evidence of barriers to necessary care. The reasons for not getting healt...