| 书目名称 | Mental Health Public Policy in Global Context |
| 副标题 | A Comparative Study |
| 编辑 | Timothy Philip Fadgen |
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| 概述 | Discusses global mental health policy against context of Pacific Island Countries.Explores the historical development of mental health systems.Identifies and examines how colonialisation has instituti |
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| 描述 | This book explores the development of mental health systems in the Pacific Island Countries (PICs) of Samoa and Tonga through an examination of several policy transfer events from the colonial to the contemporary. Beginning in the 1990s, mental health became an area of global policy concern as reflected in concerted international organisation and bilateral aid and development agendas, most notably those of the World Bank, World Health Organization, and the governments of Australia and New Zealand. This book highlights how Tonga and Samoa both reformed their respective mental health systems during these years, after relatively long periods of stagnation..Using recent scholarship concerning public policy transfer, this book explains these policy outcomes and expands it to include consideration of the historical institutional dimensions evidenced by contemporary mental health systems. This book considers three distinct levels of policy implicated in mental health system transfer processes from developed to developing nations: colonial authority and influence; decolonisation processes; and the global development agenda surrounding health systems. In the process, the author argues that |
| 出版日期 | Book 2020 |
| 关键词 | Public policy; Policy transfer; Mental health; Mental health policy; Historical institutionalism; Samoa; T |
| 版次 | 1 |
| doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6479-6 |
| isbn_softcover | 978-981-15-6481-9 |
| isbn_ebook | 978-981-15-6479-6 |
| copyright | Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020 |
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