Mental Health among Public and Private Housing Residents

2018 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 313-341 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soo-jeong Han ◽  
Hee-jung Jun
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Private Housing

Public and private responsibility for mental health services.

1989 ◽  
Vol 44 (8) ◽  
pp. 1133-1137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonard Bickman ◽  
Paul R. Dokecki
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Public And Private

A community-based approach to evaluation of health outcomes and costs for telepsychiatry in a rural population: Preliminary results

2000 ◽  
Vol 6 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 155-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig Kennedy ◽  
Peter Yellowlees
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Pilot Trial ◽  
Public Mental Health ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Preliminary Results ◽  
The People

A pilot trial was established to support visiting psychiatric services and local public and private practitioners through the use of videoconferencing. The purpose of the trial was to determine whether people in the community received better health-care with telemedicine. A community-based approach was used to evaluate health outcomes, costs, utilization, accessibility, quality and needs for such services in a rural community in Queensland. Over a two-year period data were collected from 124 subjects who met the criteria of having a mental health problem or mental disorder. Nine further subjects refused to participate in the study. Only 32 subjects used videoconferencing to receive mental health services. Preliminary results did not show any significant improvements in wellbeing or quality of life, although the time span was relatively short. However, the results confirmed that the people were no worse off from a consumer or a practitioner perspective from using videoconferencing. Most consumers found that videoconferencing with a psychiatrist moderately or greatly helped them in managing their treatment, with 98% of them preferring to be offered videoconferencing in combination with local services. Overall, videoconferencing is a crucial part of enhancing psychiatry services in rural areas. However, it is not necessarily cost-effective for all consumers, general practitioners, psychiatrists, or the public mental health service.

scholarly journals Patient Smartphone Ownership and Interest in Mobile Apps to Monitor Symptoms of Mental Health Conditions: A Survey in Four Geographically Distinct Psychiatric Clinics

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. e5 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Torous ◽  
Steven Richard Chan ◽  
Shih Yee-Marie Tan ◽  
Jacob Behrens ◽  
Ian Mathew ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Psychiatric Symptoms ◽  
Mobile Apps ◽  
Mental Healthcare ◽  
The United States ◽  
Psychiatric Outpatients ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Diverse Patient Population ◽  
Mobile Mental Health

Background Despite growing interest in mobile mental health and utilization of smartphone technology to monitor psychiatric symptoms, there remains a lack of knowledge both regarding patient ownership of smartphones and their interest in using such to monitor their mental health. Objective To provide data on psychiatric outpatients’ prevalence of smartphone ownership and interest in using their smartphones to run applications to monitor their mental health. Methods We surveyed 320 psychiatric outpatients from four clinics around the United States in order to capture a geographically and socioeconomically diverse patient population. These comprised a state clinic in Massachusetts (n=108), a county clinic in California (n=56), a hybrid public and private clinic in Louisiana (n=50), and a private/university clinic in Wisconsin (n=106). Results Smartphone ownership and interest in utilizing such to monitor mental health varied by both clinic type and age with overall ownership of 62.5% (200/320), which is slightly higher than the average United States’ rate of ownership of 58% in January 2014. Overall patient interest in utilizing smartphones to monitor symptoms was 70.6% (226/320). Conclusions These results suggest that psychiatric outpatients are interested in using their smartphones to monitor their mental health and own the smartphones capable of running mental healthcare related mobile applications.

scholarly journals Services for adults with intellectual disability in Aotearoa New Zealand

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (03) ◽  
pp. 71-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane McCarthy ◽  
Mhairi Duff
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Intellectual Disability ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Mental Health Legislation ◽  
Health Professional Training ◽  
Training Schemes ◽  
Health Legislation

Aotearoa New Zealand is a country of just under 5 million people with a diverse population, the main ethnic groups being of European descent and Maori. There are well-developed public and private healthcare systems. As in other countries, Aotearoa New Zealand has closed the large institutions and developed community-based services for people with intellectual disability. Aotearoa New Zealand has specific legislation for people with intellectual disability presenting to the criminal justice system and has unusually and explicitly excluded people with intellectual disability from mental health legislation since 1992. Partly as a result, most health professional training schemes have little focus on issues for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Therefore, one of the main challenges over the coming decade will be to ensure there is a sufficient workforce of psychiatrists and other professionals who have the training and expertise to work with people with intellectual disability requiring mental health and forensic services.

Evaluating Complex, Collaborative Programmes: The Partnership Project as a Case Study

2001 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
pp. 639-646 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Pirkis ◽  
Helen Herrman ◽  
Isaac Schweitzer ◽  
Alison Yung ◽  
Margaret Grigg ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Health Strategy ◽  
Health Project ◽  
National Mental Health ◽  
Poor Outcomes ◽  
Public And Private Partnerships ◽  
Levels Of Integration

Objective: In Australia, mental health services are delivered by a complex web of publicand private-sector providers. There is a growing recognition that linkages between these groups are not optimal, and a concern that this may lead to poor outcomes. This paper illustrates a conceptual framework for developing, implementing and evaluating programmes concerned with linkages. Method: Drawing on theoretical and practical literature, this paper identifies different levels of integration, issues in evaluating programmes to address poor linkages, and features of useful evaluations. Within this context, it describes the method by which the Public and Private Partnerships in Mental Health Project (Partnership Project) is being evaluated. Conducted by St Vincent's Mental Health Service and The Melbourne Clinic, this is one of several Demonstration Projects in Integrated Mental Health Care funded under the National Mental Health Strategy. Results: Collaboration is hard to conceptualize and collaborative programmes usually have many players and components, and tend to operate within already-complex systems. This creates difficulties for evaluation, in terms of what to measure, how to measure it, and how to interpret findings. In spite of these difficulties, the illustrative example demonstrates a model for evaluating collaborative programmes that is currently working well because it is strongly conceptualized, descriptive, comparative, constructively sceptical, positioned from the bottom up, and collaborative. Conclusions: This model, or aspects of it, could be extended to the evaluation of other mental health programmes and services that have collaborative elements.

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