A NEW MENTAL HEALTH POLICY FOR SOUTH AFRICALund, CrickMental Health Matters
The publication of South Africa's National Mental Health Policy Framework and Strategic Plan 2023–2030 and the proposed National Health Insurance (NHI) make it timely to review that state of mental health services in the country, and to emphasize the importance of prioritising mental health as a...
A framework for child and adolescent mental health service provision is presented, following which steps for reducing the extent of unmet service need are considered. The paper concludes with a call to scale up child and adolescent mental health services in South Africa, based on the stark ...
First, to place violence in South Africa and social responses to it within the interpretive framework of Foucault's theory concerning power and socio-medical knowledge, and to identify the implications that this structuralist approach has for policy formulation. Second, to outline the four major ...
A framework for understanding the provision of care by primary health care nurses in South Africa While the nurses in this study understood the need for holistic care, in practice, they provided largely biomedical care. Where psycho-social/psychological problems were overtly raised, the nurses either...
Mental health policy development and implementation in South Africa: a situation analysis The aim of this study is to examine mental health policy and systems in South Africa, with a view to identifying the key barriers to mental health policy development and implementation, and steps that can be...
This figure will rise to 15% in 2020, when it is estimated that unipolar depression will be the second most disabling health condition in the world. In South Africa, neuropsychiatric disorders account for the second highest proportion of the local burden of disease, after HIV/AIDS....
to the perceived needs of their communities. While keen to offer psychosocial support to people suffering anxiety and fear in the context of the crisis, this has often been integrated with spiritual support. Analysing their work from the framework of a rights-based approach to mental health, we...
WHO regionsMental health policy (n = 190) (%)Mental health program (n = 191) (%)Mental health legislation (n = 173) (%)Disability benefits (n = 189) (%)Therapeutic drug policy (n = 187) (%) WHO regions Africa 50.0 76.1 79.5 45.5 93.5 Americas 72.7 76.5 75.0 90.9 90.9 Eastern Me...
The South African National Mental Health Policy Framework and Strategic Plan 2013–2020, reports that there are serious social and economic costs related to the provision of health care. These include direct and indirect costs such as reduced productivity at home and work, loss of income and loss...