Integration Of Mental Health Essay

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I believe there are multiple networking opportunities that exist to link and to mobilize people to help address issues as it relates to mental illness and chronic physical disease. Research over the past several years has documented the urgent need for the integration of mental health into the health sector. Investigators have noted that there is a need for the integration of mental health in policies that address other sectors in addition to just the health sector. We can help facilitate the improvement of mental health by using information on social and economic determinants to inform service planning, organize promotion and prevention programs, develop advocacy for social change, and to influence authorities outside the health sector to …show more content…

The World Health Organization’s pyramid of care has highlighted several reasons why formal community-based mental health services combined with mental health services in general hospitals and facilities play a vital role in the improvement of mental health. These services contribute to better accessibility, continuity of care, more user satisfaction, increased compliance with treatment, better protection of human rights and prevention of mental health stigmatization. Additionally, they enhance the collaboration of primary health care services and pharmacological and psychosocial interventions for more effective treatment in people with mental and physical …show more content…

I believe it as the only way we can achieve true progress. The bible states “Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up! Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep warm alone? And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly

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