Institutionalizing mental health program in Concepcion, Iloilo /
Bistis, Christine Rio J.
Institutionalizing mental health program in Concepcion, Iloilo / Christine Rio J. Bistis. - xxi, 457 leaves : color illustrations, maps
Graduate School of Public and Development Management
Mental health represents a critical indicator of human development, serves as a key determinant of well-being, quality of life, and hope, has an impact on a range of development outcomes, and is a basis for social stability. Poor mental health impedes the individual's capacity to work productively, realize their potential and make a contribution to their community. Persons with mental and psychosocial disabilities represent a significant proportion of the world's population. Almost one million people die due to suicide every year, and it is the third leading cause of death among young people. In the Municipality of Concepcion, Iloilo where the researcher is assigned as doctors to the barrio (DTTB), suicide if the 8th and 9th leading cause of mortality with 4 and 2 cases in 2011 and 2012 respectively. In the past 5 years, there has no visiting psychiatrist in Sara District Hospital which is the referral hospital of the municipality. Thus, patients who need emergency and out-patient psychiatric consults were referred immediately to tertiary hospitals in Iloilo City without initial management in the community. Often they are referred to Police Station and were imprisoned for peace and order reasons. This paper aims to institutionalize a mental health program in the Municipality of Concepcion, Iloilo. There were three pure researches done to concretize the institutionalization of the program. Taken into consideration also in this study are the six building blocks of the Health Systems Reform Agenda (HSRA) and regulating the five control knobs of reform. Strategic planning and social marketing were used to convince other stakeholders to support the program. With the power of example, the empowerment of the community was established thereby decreasing the stigma on mental disorder and thus paving the way for sustainable projects on mental health program, namely: creation of Executive Order, Barangay Ordinance, Municipal Resolution on mental health program and creation of Memorandum of Understanding between the LGU Concepcion and West Visayas State University Department of Psychiatry. Hence, this study has been successful in establishing a new health program in the context of evidence-based health care program. It is a program in which the care that the health professional provide was based closely as possible on evidence from well conducted researchers into the effectiveness of health care intervention, thereby minimizing the problems of underused, overused and misused resources.
Mental health.
Mental health planning--Philippines--Concepcion, Iloilo.
Community mental health program--Philippines--Concepcion, Iloilo).
Institutionalizing mental health program in Concepcion, Iloilo / Christine Rio J. Bistis. - xxi, 457 leaves : color illustrations, maps
Graduate School of Public and Development Management
Mental health represents a critical indicator of human development, serves as a key determinant of well-being, quality of life, and hope, has an impact on a range of development outcomes, and is a basis for social stability. Poor mental health impedes the individual's capacity to work productively, realize their potential and make a contribution to their community. Persons with mental and psychosocial disabilities represent a significant proportion of the world's population. Almost one million people die due to suicide every year, and it is the third leading cause of death among young people. In the Municipality of Concepcion, Iloilo where the researcher is assigned as doctors to the barrio (DTTB), suicide if the 8th and 9th leading cause of mortality with 4 and 2 cases in 2011 and 2012 respectively. In the past 5 years, there has no visiting psychiatrist in Sara District Hospital which is the referral hospital of the municipality. Thus, patients who need emergency and out-patient psychiatric consults were referred immediately to tertiary hospitals in Iloilo City without initial management in the community. Often they are referred to Police Station and were imprisoned for peace and order reasons. This paper aims to institutionalize a mental health program in the Municipality of Concepcion, Iloilo. There were three pure researches done to concretize the institutionalization of the program. Taken into consideration also in this study are the six building blocks of the Health Systems Reform Agenda (HSRA) and regulating the five control knobs of reform. Strategic planning and social marketing were used to convince other stakeholders to support the program. With the power of example, the empowerment of the community was established thereby decreasing the stigma on mental disorder and thus paving the way for sustainable projects on mental health program, namely: creation of Executive Order, Barangay Ordinance, Municipal Resolution on mental health program and creation of Memorandum of Understanding between the LGU Concepcion and West Visayas State University Department of Psychiatry. Hence, this study has been successful in establishing a new health program in the context of evidence-based health care program. It is a program in which the care that the health professional provide was based closely as possible on evidence from well conducted researchers into the effectiveness of health care intervention, thereby minimizing the problems of underused, overused and misused resources.
Mental health.
Mental health planning--Philippines--Concepcion, Iloilo.
Community mental health program--Philippines--Concepcion, Iloilo).