The long-awaited publication of a mental health strategy for Northern Ireland is set to be further delayed due to the pandemic workload, despite recent findings that a third of people in Northern Ireland met criteria for depression and anxiety related to Covid-19. The Department of Health has ...
Mental health promotionPolicyLearning disabilityStrategyMental health servicesUnited KingdomPurpose – This article aims to bring readers up to date with policy developments in England and Northern Ireland in the last two years since the journal first reported on these issues. Design/methodology/approach...
A retrospective study was made of all individuals with severe mental handicap (IQ less than 50) in Northern Ireland who are resident in institutions and in the community. Some 4,701 individuals were ascertained and the annual prevalence rate based on the period 1950-69 was 3.67 per 1,000 liv...
the Republic of Ireland launched a new policy for mental health in 2021, while Northern Ireland’s first mental health strategy funding plan was published earlier in the year.
Despite this, child and adolescent mental health in the context of conflict is generally not a prioritized area of care or research, and those who are disabled, or are children conceived because of conflict rape (namely sexual violence, which is a well-known strategy of war - Nordås and ...
These engagements included (1) identifying levels of importance between remaining OAs (community members preferences) (2) alignment with local strategies (One Northern Devon Health Equity Strategy [57] and other local organisation strategies), and (3) sustainability (identifying individuals who could ...
63, [91]). Engaging in creative literacy practices that promote positive self-esteem and in which students have pride may be an effective strategy for students trying to manage their mental health while at university, and is an area that warrants further research. For Amelia, writing poetry ...
health emergency of international concern on January 30, 2020, we limited the search from January 1, 2020, to June 16, 2020, without any language restrictions. The main keywords used in the search strategy included “coronavirus” or “COVID-19” or “SARS-CoV-2”, AND “mental health” ...
Global strategy on Digital Health 2020–2025. World Health Organization. 2021. https://www.who.int/publications-detail-redirect/9789240020924. Accessed 18 March 2024. Health Service Executive and Digital Health and Social Care Northern Ireland. All-Ireland Digital Capability Framework for Health and ...
The police and others in occupations where they come into close contact with people experiencing/with mental ill health, often have to manage difficult and complex situations. Training is needed to equip them to recognise and assist when someone has a mental health issue or learning/intellectual di...