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- Title
Mental Health and Primary Care: Contributing to Mental Health System Transformation in Canada.
- Authors
Kates, Nick
- Abstract
For 20 years mental health and primary care providers across Canada have been working collaboratively together to improve access to care, provider skills, and patient experience. The new strategic plan of the Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC) offers many opportunities for collaborative care to play a role in the transformation of Canada’s mental health systems. To assist the plan, this paper presents principles underlying successful projects and ways that mental health and primary care services can work together more collaboratively, including integrating mental health providers in primary care. It integrates these concepts into a Canadian Model for Collaborative Mental Health Care that can guide future expansion of these approaches, and suggests ways in which better collaboration can address wider issues facing all of Canada’s health care systems.
- Subjects
CANADA; HEALTH services accessibility; INTEGRATED health care delivery; INTERPROFESSIONAL relations; MENTAL health; PRIMARY health care; PSYCHIATRIC treatment
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health, 2017, Vol 36, Issue 4, p33
- ISSN
0713-3936
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7870/cjcmh-2017-033