Under the Victorian 2014 Mental Health Act (MHA14), Victorians have a right to advance statements. While there have been initiatives to support uptake, under 3% of consumers have done so. In March 2021, the Royal Commission into Victoria's Mental Health System (the Commission) released its ...
An exploratory design was used to identify and qualitatively describe the views of 46 mental health workers from services across the ACT and Victoria, Australia. Data were coded using an inductive thematic approach. Comments indicated that mental health workers held both positive and negative views ...
Women’s Public Health Research, Monash Centre for Health Research and Implenetation, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia Melanie Gibson-Helm, Helena J Teede & Nigel K Stepto College of Sport and Exercise Science, Victoria University, PO...
As stated, the seminal work conducted on medicalism and legalism has focused on English mental health law (Fennell, 1986, Glover-Thomas, 2002, Gostin, 1983, Jones, 1980, McSherry and Weller, 2010, Rose, 1985, Spaulding, 1989, Unsworth, 1987). For Jones, the Lunacy Act 1890 which introd...
—– Victoria Costello With attendees; among them mental health and social service professionals, parent advocates and youth advocates. With PPAL Executive Director, Lisa Lambert Signing copies of A Lethal Inheritance, at PPAL meeting. Leave a comment Posted in Parenting advice Which Websites Can ...
The authors wish to thank Victoria Muinde and Marco Zenone, as well as members of the Collective on Political Determinants of Health, for their input and conversations on this topic. JR recognizes the School of Nursing and Health Studies for providing financial support in early 2024. JR would ...
The Report of the UN Special Rapporteur on the right of all people to enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health pleaded the urgent need for governments to act through appropriate laws and policies. We argue that Australia is in breach of international obligations,...
mental health, we studied global priorities for urban adolescent mental health. One aim of this study is to contribute data-driven insights that can be used to unite several sectors in cities to act within and across their domains in favour of mental health promotion and care that is ...
Evans-Whipp, T. J., Plenty, S. M., Catalano, R. F., Herrenkohl, T. I., & Toumbourou, J. W. (2015). Longitudinal effects of school drug policies on student marijuana use in Washington State and Victoria Australia.American Journal of Public Health,105(5), 994–1000. ...
Many countries have enacted, or are in the process of enacting, emergency mental health legislation in response to the global pandemic of Covid-19 (coronavirus). In Ireland, the Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Act, 2020 amends the Mental Health Act 2001 to permit the ...