Mental health care reform initiated in 1999 in the UK increased funding for specialist mental health services with emphasis on supervised community treatment. Fewer hospitalizations were needed owing to the est
The setting for this study is the primary healthcare center (PHCC). The PHCC has a full complement of staff (nurse/midwives, community health officers (CHO) and community health extension workers (CHEW)) and deliver the full range of services expected at the primary care level. There are ...
Despite years of instability and periods of acute ill health, Christopher (WB), Lydia (WB), Sara (WB), and Beth (WB) obtained university degrees and teaching qualifications and continued to work with the support of family, friends, and employers. Beth (WB) was unequivocal that she needed ...
Nurse prescriberPharmacist prescribersMental healthNon-medical prescribing (NMP) qualifications extend prescribing authority to nurses, pharmacists, and other allied health professionals and are advocated as a means to help improve healthcare efficiency and access to services. However, despite non-medical ...
Family physicians provided 57% of all mental health consultations. Compared to heterosexual men, GBM appeared to be younger, more likely to be single, living alone and residents of Ontario (p < 0.05). Annual household income and per- sonal educational qualifications did not differ ...
It is concerned with what someone may be expected to do, rather than on what actual learning processes occur.14 The capacity of paramedics with either CBT or Diploma based qualifications to conduct complex cognitive assessments, such as mental health assessments, has not been examined. Shaban and...
Task-shifting to lay health workers (LHWs) is one such alternative. It is a process of delegation which involves shifting tasks, such as the delivery of psychological interventions for CMDs, from highly qualified health workers to workers with fewer qualifications and minimum training, in order ...
Women make up 5% of the European prison population on average. Almost invisible in prison and health research, and suffering the stigma associated with female offending, incarcerated women are often forgotten, and their specific healthcare needs remain m
Most participants believed that HCPs with special- ist mental health training e.g. psychologists could talk directly with children about a parent's illness, due to their 'qualifications' and knowledge about mental illness. They believed this would enable them to answer children's questions ...
Some schools have recruited advanced nurse practitioners to manage the needs of students.35 Beyond traditional providers of mental health, the discipline has increasingly shifted towards inclusion of so-called natural supports, such as special education staff and school nurses. Improved training and ...