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Independent Mental Health Advocacy (IMHA) improving equality of access
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 7 minutes 11 seconds
- Place of publication:
- London
This film focuses explores issues of equality and diversity and ways of improving the take-up of Independent Mental Health Advocacy (IMHA). It highlights groups of people that are less likely to be offered the IMHA service, such as people from black and minority ethnic communities, people with learning disabilities or people with different forms of communication and suggests ways to improve access to IMHA services. Key learning points include: working in partnership with community organisations; monitor who is using your services; use creative and innovative way to communicate with individuals and groups; and ensure policies and practice take account of equality and diversity. (Original abstract)
Coronavirus and the social impacts on different ethnic groups in the UK: 2020
- Author:
- OFFICE FOR NATIONAL STATISTICS
- Publisher:
- Office for National Statistics
- Publication year:
- 2020
- Pagination:
- 20
- Place of publication:
- London
This release uses data from the UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS) matched with data from the Understanding Society: COVID-19 Study, 2020 to explore the social impacts of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic initial period of lockdown on the health, employment, and living standards of people of different ethnicities in the UK. The release also uses data from the Wealth and Assets Survey (WAS) to understand the financial resilience of different ethnic groups in Great Britain before the pandemic. Main points include: most ethnic groups in the UK experienced a worsening of their self-reported mental health between 2019 and April 2020 (based on their GHQ-12 score); the mental well-being of those in the Indian ethnic group in the UK may have been particularly affected by the pandemic as they reported both greater difficulty with sleep over worry between 2019 and the initial period of lockdown (April 2020) and had higher scores than other groups on a measure of self-reported mental health difficulties (GHQ-12); prior to the pandemic, households headed by someone of Black African or Other Black ethnicity were significantly less likely to have enough formal financial assets to cover a drop in employment income than those from most other ethnic groups; after adjusting for age, around half of working-age adults of White British (46%) and Other White (51%) ethnicities in paid work, both immediately before and during the first period of lockdown, in the UK, reported a decrease in their weekly hours worked in April 2020, compared with one-third of their counterparts of Indian (33%) and Black, African, Caribbean or Black British (33%) ethnicities; in April 2020 in the UK, over a quarter (27%) of those from Black, African, Caribbean or Black British ethnic groups reported finding it very or quite difficult to get by financially, significantly more than those from White Irish (6%), Other White (7%), Indian (8%) and Pakistani or Bangladeshi (13%) ethnic groups. (Edited publisher abstract)
Assessing the mental health needs of older people
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Place of publication:
- London
- Edition:
- Rev. ed.
This web-based resource provides an overview of information and current practice to all those involved in assessing the social care needs of older people with mental health needs. It is aimed primarily at practitioners undertaking assessments, in particular, those front-line staff who may be the first professional in contact with an older person or their family and friends. The Guide provides access to the information and skills that inform sound judgements in the support of service users and carers. Its coverage includes: messages from research; current policy and guidance; service users and carers; the social workers role in assessment; assessing need; black and minority ethnic older people; implications of the Mental Health Act 1983; and interagency working. Also incorporated in the contents are practice and service examples, useful further reading and links to additional information on the web and to full text of official guidance and standards. (Previously published as SCIE Practice Guide no. 2).
Promoting health and preventing premature mortality in black, Asian and other ethnic minority groups: QS167
- Author:
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CARE EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2018
- Place of publication:
- London
Quality standard describing six priority-areas for quality improvement in promoting health and preventing premature mortality among black, Asian and other minority ethnic groups. The standard aims to contribute to improvements in the prevalence of excess weight and obesity, physical activity levels, tobacco use, and inequality in hospital admissions and detentions under the Mental Health Act compared with the general population. The six quality statements include ensuring the views of minority ethnic groups are represented in the priority setting and design of local health and wellbeing programmes, that people minority ethnic groups at high risk of type 2 diabetes are referred to an intensive lifestyle change programme, enabling access to mental health services in a variety of community-based settings, and the provision of annual physical health assessments for people from black, Asian and other minority ethnic groups with serious mental illness. (Edited publisher abstract)