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Evaluating mental health services. A world perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 July 2014

Norman Sartorius
Norman Sartorius*
Affiliation:
Départment de Psychiatrie, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Geneve, Bd. St-Georges 16-18, CH-1205 Geneva, Switzerland
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Extract

Evaluations of mental health services are much in demand. Their results are supposed to help in improving the quality of mental health care and in making them economically better viable.

Yet, world-wide there is:

  1. 1) little agreement about the content of terms such as evaluation, mental health service, outcome of an activity although these and other terms are widely used;

  2. 2) uncertainty about the best use of results of evaluative research;

  3. 3) lack of consensus about who should evaluate what and by what method.

Type
Section D: Developing the Public Health Perspective in European Mental Health Services
Information
Epidemiologia e psichiatria sociale. Monograph Supplement , Volume 6 , Issue S1: Monograph Supplement 1: Making Rational Mental Health Services , April 1997 , pp. 239 - 245
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1997

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