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Fundamental facts about mental health 2015
- Author:
- MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Mental Health Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 93
- Place of publication:
- London
A comprehensive summary of mental health research, providing a handbook of key facts and figures, covering all key areas of mental health. The document shows that in the UK mental health problems are responsible for the largest burden of disease – 28 per cent of the total burden, while mental health research receives only 5.5 per cent (£115 million) of total UK health research spending. One in four people experience a mental health problem in any given year and ten per cent of children and young people (aged 5-16 years) have a clinically diagnosable mental problem. Common mental health problems such as depression and anxiety are distributed according to a gradient of economic disadvantage across society with the poorer and more disadvantaged disproportionately affected from common mental health problems and their adverse consequences. (Edited publisher abstract)
A new way forward: a world with good mental health for all
- Author:
- MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Mental Health Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 45
- Place of publication:
- London
Strategy document from the Mental Health Foundation which sets out the case for a preventative approach to mental health problems, including understanding the causation and development of mental health problems, the pattern of risks, and the prevalence across different individuals and groups. The document also highlights the Foundation's belief that any focus on prevention needs to be linked to service innovation and development, and with investment in solutions that will have the most impact. Areas discussed include: the importance of improving public knowledge and understanding about mental health; the Foundations initiatives to support children and young people mental health problems; the Foundations five steps to encourage a preventative approach to mental health; the financial and wider costs of delays in tacking mental health; and key areas of focus for prevention across the life course. It then presents the five-year goals of the Mental Health Foundation: increasing understanding about how to prevent mental health problems, providing evidence-based solutions, making practical and accessible support available through online and digital technology, and working as an advocate for change. (Edited publisher abstract)
Indirect payments: practitioners' guide
- Author:
- MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Mental Health Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Place of publication:
- London
This guide is designed to help social care practitioners work through the process of ensuring that people who lack capacity to make certain decisions about their lives are able to take advantage of the full range of options for receiving care and support, including direct payments. Each section gives practical hints and tips about the key stages in the process, covering: assessing whether a person has mental capacity to consent to a direct payment; making a ‘best interests’ decision about using an indirect payment; identifying an ‘authorised person’; managing an indirect payment; monitoring and reviewing an indirect payment; and ending an indirect payment. A selection of illustrative case studies is included. (Edited publisher abstract)