Quality in Delivery of Mental Health Services

Title
Quality in Delivery of Mental Health Services
Publication Date
2013
Author(s)
Ditton, Mary
Editor
Editor(s): Robert Woolfolk and Lesley Allen
Type of document
Book Chapter
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
InTech Open
Place of publication
Rijeka, Croatia
Edition
1
DOI
10.5772/52295
UNE publication id
une:16345
Abstract
Quality in health care is an important contemporary topic because of rising consumer expectations of health care amidst constrained health care budgets. Historically mental health services have been the poor cousin of health care services generally, and acute health care services specifically. At this time when quality in health care is occupying more space in the health care literature, it is opportune to review what inroads have been made as far as quality in delivery of mental health services. This chapter will examine the movement towards quality management in health care and explore the divide between quality in general health care and quality in mental health care. After this, what is considered quality in delivery of mental health services is discussed and finally the challenges to quality in delivery of mental health services and methods to overcome these challenges are analysed.
Link
Citation
Mental Disorders: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives, p. 389-407
ISBN
9789535109198
Start page
389
End page
407

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