Recommendations For The Future
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| Recommendations from each of the sessions are below. Please join us in discussing these issues as the Movement grows! Click here for our discussion forums | ||
| Session 1: Scaling up for mental health | ||
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There is a growing and diverse range of experiences in experimentation in delivery methods and organizational strategies for scaling up mental health services |
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Key areas that our field however might lag behind other areas of public health that may be important to scale-up success include: more robust and precise identification of priority need areas and targets, adding systems and cost-benefit analyses to a growing body of work on treatment benefits in developing country settings, more experimentation but also clearer guidelines as to how to incorporate health extender roles for the provision of mental health care, and better understanding of use/acceptability of services. |
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Mental health advocacy should ally with other fields of public health beyond the message of the value of mental health to health per se, and join in collaborations that further a) the general features of health systems that are widely beneficial to scaling up a range of health services, including mental health, in resource –poor settings, such as investment in a health-worker-based cadre, and b) better ways to incorporate process indicators, implementation assessment and real-time management tools in delivery of care, from local, to national, levels. |
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The Movement should therefore use its evolving networking capability and cataloguing of resources to |
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Enhance communication to better network different efforts globally especially on systems and delivery design, human resources/health workers development, integration of mental health within other settings/programs |
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Highlight evolving research and key resources in areas not usually a part of the “evidence-base” literature such as a) implementation science, methods of program evaluation, etc., b) cost-benefit methods, c) contexts for acceptability and use of services, d) work in epidemiology, disease risk factors, or treatment effectiveness that can help target and shape intervention strategies |
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Join with other organizations in shared messages on sites and in public communications to advocate for overall features of health delivery in developing country settings to enhance access for all key components of care (ie health worker investments, user fee policies, community engagement in planning, etc). |
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| Session 1 : scaling up services | Session 2 : human rights | |
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