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Health Care in Prisons *
Published in Andrew Stevens, James Raftery, Jonathan Mant, Sue Simpson, Health Care Needs Assessment, 2018
Tom Marshall, Sue Simpson, Andrew Stevens
The Project’s annual business meetings, and the member countries’ annual reports and plans, have so far concentrated on three priority areas (communicable diseases, mental health and drug misuse). The 1990 project meeting in The Hague resulted in the publication of a Consensus Statement on Mental Health Promotion in Prisons, which was distributed to prisons in England and Wales for World Mental Health Day 1999. The Statement recognises the potential harm imprisonment may do to mental health, which is described as: ‘important for everyone, and not only for those who have been diagnosed as suffering from mental disorders, because it underpins all health and well-being’. The Statement goes on to analyse the aspects of prison life which may be damaging to the mental health of prisoners and prison staff, and to suggest steps prison managers and staff may take to protect and promote the mental well-being of prisoners and of their colleagues.
Mental health, the law and human rights
Published in Chambers Mary, Psychiatric and mental health nursing, 2017
Michael Hazelton, Peter Morrall
Take the example of schizophrenia, (chapter 24) only one of the mental disorders from the hundreds listed in the two formal medical classification schemas (see chapter 12). These are the fifth edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (DSM-V)2 and the tenth revision of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) International statistical classification of diseases and related health problems (ICD-10).3 On annual World Mental Health Day in 2014, in a ‘fact sheet’ entitled ‘Living with schizophrenia’, the WHO made available to the media statistics about this disorder’s incidence, morbidity and mortality, as well as the associated discrimination and human rights abuse:
Mental health in Nepal
Published in Dinesh Bhugra, Samson Tse, Roger Ng, Nori Takei, Routledge Handbook of Psychiatry in Asia, 2015
Mahendra Nepal, Shree Ram Ghimire, Smriti Nepal, Bharat Kumar Goit
The MHP of IOM had conducted three pilot projects to prevent the development of behavioral and mental problems among children from poor socioeconomic and untouchable caste groups. Results were promising and some of the approaches have been adopted and replicated by CMC–Nepal in other areas such as school mental health programs, prevention and health promotion programs for children, etc. Awareness-raising campaigns to increase awareness about mental illness and health, and reduce stigma, are the main activities conducted by the government, the mental hospital, CMC–Nepal and other NGOs. The Psychiatrists’ Association of Nepal (PAN) marks Annual World Mental Health Day with such activities.
Mental Health Discourses on Twitter during Mental Health Awareness Week
Published in Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 2021
Meiko Makita, Amalia Mas-Bleda, Scott Morris, Mike Thelwall
For the last two decades, there has been an international effort to promote awareness of mental health issues. For instance, in the United States of America (USA) Mental Illness Awareness Week coincides with World Mental Health Day, and in the United Kingdom (UK), since 2001 the Mental Health Foundation has organized a Mental Health Awareness Week (MHAW) every May with a different theme. A wide variety of events are conducted during MHAW to educate the public, provide support and advocate for policy change (see Mental Health Foundation, 2019). More specific mental health initiatives include Maternity Mental Health Awareness Week, Depression Awareness Day and National Day without Stigma. Awareness campaigns seem to encourage communication between society, health professionals and people experiencing mental health issues, particularly on Twitter (McClellan et al., 2017).
Making a More Mentally Healthy World
Published in Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 2021
Two dinosaurs were standing on the street corner talking to one another and occasionally waving to passing motorists. They held no signs, so I could not discern what the costumed people might be selling or promoting. But this sight was a bit unusual in Knoxville, Tennessee, a mid-sized American city not known for flamboyant costumes in the early morning hours, on a date nowhere close to holidays such as Mardi Gras or Halloween. It occurred to me, however, that the world was becoming so strange that I would not be greatly surprised to see a real dinosaur (or an extraterrestrial) walking down the street. At this time of the annual World Mental Health Day, it seems that there is an epidemic of mental ill health engendered by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Stemming the Tide of Young Person Suicide and Self-Harm
Published in Comprehensive Child and Adolescent Nursing, 2019
Health Education England (HEE) and the National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health (NCCMH) have recently launched a series of self-harm and suicide prevention frameworks (NHS Health Education England, n.d.). Importantly and in light of of Molly Russell’s death, one of these frameworks is designed to help those professionals who work with children and young people. HEE launched its new learning resource on World Mental Health Day, 10 October 2018, which aimed to raise vital awareness about suicide and self-harm among healthcare professionals and the wider public.