Mental health policy development and implementation in South Africa: a situationanalysis. Phase 1 Country report (original) (raw)

This research is conducted in the context of a wider international study of mental health policy development and implementation in African countries: Ghana, South Africa, Uganda and Zambia (Flisher et al., 2007). This study, titled the Mental Health and Poverty Project (MHAPP), sets out to investigate the policy level interventions that are required to break the vicious cycle of poverty and mental ill-health, in order to generate lessons for a range of low-and middle-income countries. This report presents the findings of the first phase of the study, namely a situation analysis of mental health policy development and implementation in South Africa. The findings of this first phase will be used to inform a set of interventions, developed in partnership with the national Directorate: Mental Health and Substance Abuse in the Department of Health. The interventions conducted in the second phase will set out to address particular barriers to the successful development and implementation of mental health policy in this country. These interventions will be documented and evaluated, with a view to generating lessons that may be of value for future work in this country and in other low-and middle-income countries. The coding framework adopted for the national/provincial and district levels is set out in Annex 2. 2.4 WHO Mental Health Policy and Legislation Checklists The WHO Checklist for Mental Health Policy and Plans and the WHO Checklist for Mental Health Legislation are designed to assess the content and the process of developing mental health legislation, policy and plans according to a number of criteria (See Annex 3).

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