Defense Health Care: Efforts to Manage Mental Health Care Benefits to CHAMPUS Beneficiaries: Testimony: Before the Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families, House of Representatives

1992 ◽  
Author(s):  
David P. Baine
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
House Of Representatives ◽  
Select Committee ◽  
Health Care Benefits ◽  
Manage Mental ◽  
Manage Mental Health

New Systems To Manage Mental Health Care

1991 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 129-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Jane England ◽  
Veronica A. Vaccaro
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Manage Mental ◽  
Manage Mental Health

Stakeholder concerns about Australia's mental health care system

2006 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clare E Townsend ◽  
Jane E Pirkis ◽  
An T N Pham ◽  
Meredith G Harris ◽  
Harvey A Whiteford
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Select Committee ◽  
Complex Needs ◽  
Mental Health Care System ◽  
People With Mental Illness ◽  
Care System

There is growing community and professional concern that the Australian mental health care system requires substantial reform. In response to these concerns, a Senate Select Committee on Mental Health has been commissioned to conduct an inquiry into the provision of mental health services. The current study involved a content analysis of 725 submissions received by the Committee, and highlighted significant areas for reform. People with mental illness face difficulties in accessing mental health care, the care they do receive is of varying quality and poorly coordinated, and necessary services from other sectors, such as housing, are lacking. These problems may be exacerbated for particular groups with complex needs or heightened levels of vulnerability. The system requires reorienting towards the consumers and carers it is designed to serve, and needs stronger governance, higher levels of accountability and improved monitoring of quality. These findings are discussed in the context of the recent acknowledgement of mental health as an issue by the Council of Australian Governments (COAG), which has called for an action plan to be prepared for its consideration by June 2006.

scholarly journals A Web-Based Patient Portal for Mental Health Care: Benefits Evaluation

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (11) ◽  
pp. e294 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Kipping ◽  
Melanie I Stuckey ◽  
Alexandra Hernandez ◽  
Tan Nguyen ◽  
Sanaz Riahi
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Patient Portal ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Benefits Evaluation ◽  
Health Care Benefits

A Tribute to the Late William J. Curran

1996 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 274-275
Author(s):  
O. Lawrence ◽  
J.D. Gostin
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
Legal Medicine ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
International Institute ◽  
University Professor

In the summer of 1979, a group of experts on law, medicine, and ethics assembled in Siracusa, Sicily, under the auspices of the International Commission of Jurists and the International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Science, to draft guidelines on the rights of persons with mental illness. Sitting across the table from me was a quiet, proud man of distinctive intelligence, William J. Curran, Frances Glessner Lee Professor of Legal Medicine at Harvard University. Professor Curran was one of the principal drafters of those guidelines. Many years later in 1991, after several subsequent re-drafts by United Nations (U.N.) Rapporteur Erica-Irene Daes, the text was adopted by the U.N. General Assembly as the Principles for the Protection of Persons with Mental Illness and for the Improvement of Mental Health Care. This was the kind of remarkable achievement in the field of law and medicine that Professor Curran repeated throughout his distinguished career.

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