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Centre for Mental Health, The Commission for Equality in Mental Health, November 2020
The Commission was set up in 2018 to explore what causes mental health inequalities, what perpetuates them, and what might help to break the cycle. This is the final report. Today, some groups of people have far poorer mental health than others, often reflecting social disadvantage. In many cases, those same groups of people have less access to effective and relevant support for their mental health. Mental health inequalities cause harm to individuals, families, communities and society as a whole. Reducing mental health inequalities will have multiple benefits: better lives, a fairer society, and a stronger economy. Mental health inequalities are deeply rooted in society. But it does not mean they are inevitable. And they can no longer be ignored. There are no simple solutions or overnight remedies for entrenched injustices. But we have found that effective action is possible. We need to scale up the best approaches, and for those with resources and power to invest differently. And we need communities, local organisations and national government to work together to generate change at scale. In a system designed for equality, action would happen focusing on each of these factor
Mental health for all? The final report of the Commission for Equality in Mental Health DOWNLOAD PDF (58 Pages) https://www.centreformentalhealth.org.uk/sites/default/files/publication/download/CentreforMH_Commission_FinalReport.pdf
Domov na cestě in cooperation with our colleagues from Amsterdam UMC, GGZ inGeest and The Centre for Mental Health Care Development invite you for an Online “Round Table” Conference:
ART MODEL (ACTIVE RECOVERY TRIAD)
development and practice experiences with ART Model as a framework for recovery oriented mental health care in a setting where people receive intensive psychiatric treatment in The Netherlands and experiences with implementation of recovery oriented care in long-term living facilities in The Czech Republic.
Tuesday 8. December 2020 from 9,00h to 12,30h CET
Program:
How we have found ourselves - transformation from the institutional care to the service supporting recovery (Domov Na cestě)
ART Model – collaborative development of a new care model for long-term mental health settings in order to foster recovery of service users and improve the quality of care within long-term facilities. (Amsterdam UMC)
ART in practice – experiences of ART team in a work with the ART model, cooperation with other stakeholders in the system of care, challenges and success stories regarding the implementation of ART (GGZ inGeest)
How to support recovery through involvement of peer workers and peer family workers in the psychiatric hospitals - experiences with ongoing projects in The Czech Republic (Mgr. Pavel Říčan, CMHCD)
ART research – presentation of the large research outcomes of the ART model in practice realised with 20 mental health care organizations throughout the Netherlands, presentation of the instrument to measure the degree of compliance with ART and further development and research directions (Amsterdam UMC)
Conference will be held in English and Czech with simultaneous translation. The conference will be divided in two 90 minutes blocks with presentations and discussion groups.
Please register in advance on email jakub.vavra@domovnaceste.cz, the amount of participants is limited. We will send you further information about the conference program and link to the Zoom conference event.
Please feel free to share this invitation to your colleagues and others, who might be interested. All are very welcome!
OECD, November 2020
This edition marks the start of a new State of Health in the EU cycle – an initiative launched to assist EU Member States in improving the health of their citizens and the performance of their health systems. “The foremost lesson learnt from the COVID‑19 pandemic is that there is no trade-off between lives and livelihoods. Public health and the global economy are inextricably linked. We cannot have one without the other. Healthy global economic systems depend on healthy citizens. Strengthening the preparedness and resilience of health systems will require additional resources. With the right investment – from better global public health governance, to stronger health information systems and support for a digital transformation of health systems – the return on the well-being of people and the functioning of economies and societies will be high and long-lasting.” The previous edition published in 2018, made a strong case for preventing and addressing the huge burden of mental health issues in Europe. The OECD sees this as an even greater priority now and calls on governments to promote the provision of early and fully integrated services in order to improve social and labour market outcomes for people with mental health problems.
