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Posted: Thursday February 2nd, 2006 06:07 |
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Count me in survey
Count Me In 2005: Results of a national census of inpatients in mental health hospitals and facilities in England and Wales
The results of the census were published on 7 December and launched at an event in London attended by Minister of State for Health Services, Rosie Winterton MP. They show that Black African and Caribbean people are more likely to go into hospital than the general population and are more likely than most to be admitted under the Mental Health Act.
In a joint foreword to the report, Healthcare Commission Chairman Sir Ian Kennedy and Mental Health Act Commission Chairman Professor Kamlesh Patel say: "Ethnic monitoring has been mandatory in publicly-funded mental health services since 1995. That it has not been done well shows a lack of understanding of the value of having such data for planning services that are culturally sensitive."
They add: "This census demands an explanation. It does not provide one. The job of discovering the reasons behind the data must be undertaken with urgency. Until these reasons become clearer, however, it is unwise to draw premature conclusions.
However mental health officials welcomed the Census because it provides,for the first time, a baseline for ethnicity monitoring at a national level. Rosie Winterton described the census as "the highest quality, most comprehensive and reliable data we have ever collected".
Download the results - English
Download the result - Welsh
Read the Press Release: Census shows black people are more likely to go into Mental Health hospitals
Download the Department of Health's response to the findings
A full list of appendices and tables available online can be found on the Healthcare Commission web site.
Further analyses of Census data
Sub-national results, including data for England, Wales, Government Office Regions (GORs), Strategic Health Authorities (SHAs) and mental health service providers have just been published. Provider level data is being released to individual providers who can download their data from their secure account. Aggregated data for SHAs, GORs, England and Wales is published on the Healthcare Commission website.
Download Note of Further Analyses
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Posted: Thursday February 2nd, 2006 06:13 |
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Feeding minds
Food and Mental Health Campaign
Changes to our diet in the last fifty years or so are thought to be an important factor behind recent trends in mental health and mental illness.
Together with Sustain: the alliance for better farming and food, we have launched a campaign to increase awareness and understanding of the links between food and mental health, and to press for shifts in policy and practice as a result.
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Download the Executive Summary in PDF format, (3 MB, 16 pages).
Download the full report in PDF format, (5.55 MB, 72 pages)
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Download Sustain's report in PDF format, (825 KB, 128 pages).
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http://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/feedingminds You can also send this web guide to a friend
View mentally healthy recipes created for the campaign by celebrity chef Antony Worrall Thompson, plus many more recipes
Sign our petition to ask Government to act on the evidence that shows links between diet and mental health
Read our top tips for healthy eating
bulletin board by joining our online discussion forum.
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Nutrients table which provides guidance on which foods are linked to mental wellbeing.
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Organisations concerned with food, diet and mental health
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Fran Gorman 0207 803 1128 / Laura Gibson 0207 803 1130, Mental Health Foundation Press Office, email: fgorman@mhf.org.uk / lgibson@mhf.org.uk
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The information on this page was provided by the Mental Health Foundation Press Office. It was last updated on 16 January, 2006
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Posted: Thursday February 2nd, 2006 06:26 |
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Race Equality in Mental Health
Breaking the Circles of Fear
Breaking the Circles of Fear is a national three year programme funded until June 2006.
In 2002 the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health published the Breaking the Circles of Fear report which explored the experiences of Black African and Caribbean people in mental health services. Research has shown that this population is consistently misdiagnosed, over medicated and generally dissatisfied with mental health services’ responses.
What the report found
Breaking the Circles of Fear research specifically found that there are circles of fear that stop Black people from engaging with services. On the one hand service users fear using mental health services will ultimately cost them their lives. There is a clear association, amongst service users, between the mental health system as part of a coercive ‘system’ and the criminal justice system in terms of regulation and control.
Health workers on the other hand are clearly afraid to talk openly about issues concerned with race and culture that affects their practice. This in turn inhibits their willingness to take reasonable risks or to experiment. With only oblique references to the African Caribbean client group, professionals also speak about their fear of aggression from patients and about their physical size in relation to their propensity for violence.
Carers also have their fears. They worry that their loved ones may be involved in a tragic incident and also about the deleterious side effects of psychiatric treatment. They also fear that demands for ‘respect’ or information about the person for whom they care will have negative consequences.
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THANKS k FOR THE INFO
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