From Kerala to Kyrgyzstan

Authors:
CUTLER Paul, HAYWARD Robert, MAKENBAEVA Burul
Journal article citation:
Mental Health Today, November 2006, pp.18-20.
Publisher:
Pavilion
Place of publication:
Hove

Over the last four years the UK-based international mental health charity InterAction has worked with partners in Eastern Europe to develop and research ways for grassroots activists to influence policy development through practice projects. The work has been guided by the policy as process model, which was developed originally for international work with people who experienced disempowerment and disadvantage through poverty and deprivation. The authors describe their work in Eastern Europe, and also outline findings of a research project to evaluate the usefulness of the policy as process model to mental health activists working at grassroots level. The authors also look at how they have been use the model in areas of the UK.

Subject terms:
mental health, mental health problems, policy formulation, user participation, communities, empowerment;
Location(s):
Central and Eastern Europe, United Kingdom
Link:
Journal home page
ISSN print:
1474-5186

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