Coordinating Mental Health Services for People with Serious Mental Illness: A Scoping Review of Transitions from Psychiatric Hospital to Community

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 352-367 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marianne Storm ◽  
Anne Marie Lunde Husebø ◽  
Elizabeth C. Thomas ◽  
Glyn Elwyn ◽  
Yaara Zisman-Ilani
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Psychiatric Hospital ◽  
Serious Mental Illness ◽  
Scoping Review

scholarly journals The Arab Spring movement: a catalyst for reform at the psychiatric hospital in Tripoli, Libya

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 56-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adel Abuazza
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Health System ◽  
Psychiatric Hospital ◽  
Psychotropic Medication ◽  
Mental Health System ◽  
Psychiatric Hospitals ◽  
The Arab Spring

Decades of neglect have left the mental health system in Libya in bad shape. Services for the entire population are scarce, highly centralised and provided only through two psychiatric hospitals in the two biggest cities of the country. There are virtually no other mental health services anywhere else in Libya. Even the most basic of services, such as the availability of psychotropic medication for people with severe mental illness, are scarce outside Tripoli and Benghazi. This paper reviews the state of the country's mental health services since the civil war of 2011 and highlights a new fourfold approach taken by the management of the psychiatric hospital in Tripoli.

Parity and Difference: The Value of Parity Legislation for the Seriously Mentally Ill

2003 ◽  
Vol 29 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 185-201
Author(s):  
John V. Jacobi
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Serious Mental Illness ◽  
The United States ◽  
Persistent Mental Illness ◽  
Seriously Mentally Ill ◽  
People With Mental Illness

Mental illness affects the health status of about one in five Americans each year. More than five percent of adult Americans have a “serious” mental illness—an illness that interferes with social functioning. About two and one-half percent have “severe and persistent” mental illness, a categorization for the most disabling forms of mental illness, such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. All mental illness interferes to some degree with social activities. Left untreated, serious mental illness can be disabling—disrupting family life, employment status and the ability to maintain housing. Nevertheless, privately insured people in the United States (that is, the majority of insured people in the United States) are not covered for mental health services to the same extent that they are covered for physical health services. Second-class coverage of mental health services reduces access to care for people with mental illness because cost becomes a significant barrier to service. The resulting lack of treatment fuels the disabling potential of mental illness.

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