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Quality development in mental health care in Europe. Recent contributions by WHO
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 July 2014
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In 1984 all Member States of the European Region agreed on a Pan European Health Policy, popularly known as Targets for Health for All (Health for all targets, 1991).
Among the 38 targets agreed, Target 31 states (table I).
More recently the first meeting of national directors/officials of mental health services in the European Member States stated that “there should be greater concern about the quality of mental health care in each Member State, and mechanisms must be established to guarantee a quality service. These include:
a. encouraging mental health care professionals to develop systems to monitor the quality of care;
b. independent inspection of services;
c. the participation of consumers and relatives;
d. improving the basic and continuing training of mental health professionals as well as their working conditions;
Special attention should be paid to the quality of care provided to those with severe long-term mental disorder, the elderly, children and adolescents. Barriers to care should be avoided, particularly for people with long-term mental disabilities.”
The need for quality development and evaluation differ quite significantly across the European Region as a result of the existing differences in the pattern of mental health services and priority policies to be implemented.
- Type
- Section D: Developing the Public Health Perspective in European Mental Health Services
- Information
- Epidemiologia e psichiatria sociale. Monograph Supplement , Volume 6 , Issue S1: Monograph Supplement 1: Making Rational Mental Health Services , April 1997 , pp. 211 - 215
- Copyright
- Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1997
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